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The EU says sorry for making Linux


You mean that reimplemention of US originated UNIX, managed by the guy who moved to the US? ;-)


UNIX was invented in the US and Linus came over to the states, so...


Although I'm a big fan of Linus, it is unfair to say that he created the whole platform. I would argue that there is a big percentage of US contributed code to it and don't get me started on the GNU/Linux thing


To be fair, there wouldn't be any Linux without Unix & C, but there would definitely exist many other "Linux", e.g the __superior__ FreeBSD. Not diminishing Linux's achievements in any way. :-)


One could say, to be fair, there wouldn't be any Unix & C without the mathematics of Gottfried Leibniz from Germany. This discussion is ridiculous.

https://www.google.com/doodles/gottfried-wilhelm-leibnizs-37...


And the world-wide web (Tim Berners-Lee at CERN)


Even Linus left for the US.




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