Estonia totally puzzles me. The first time I ever met anyone from there was when I attended a Linux conference in Singapore in 1999. What puzzled me was that there was representatives of many countries businesses of course but the density of Estonian company was totally mind blowing. A country with just about 1.2 mio people and here they are with quite a lot of companies representing their passion for Open Source. Also 4&#x2F;5 from them were selling infosec products like VPN solutions and firewalls etc. But it shows that there was already something fundamentally right with how open they are in their mind towards adopting technology (e-citizenship etc, ... and the ease it is to open and run a business there)<p>There is no doubt that Skype had a massive impact as a role model to form a strong local entrepreneurial identity and pride. But what I want to say is that Skype was already in the right place to start with.