Every country has the talent, software development isn't some esoteric knowledge. But even if you imagine that only people in developed countries are capable of writing software, there is Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Taiwan for starters.

I don't think it makes sense to focus on the US when three of the five companies in the article are from Germany, Netherlands and China. The problem is not America per se, it's the pattern of large and often (but not always) foreign companies extracting wealth from what used to be hyper-local operations.