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supermattlast Friday at 5:50 PM1 replyview on HN

It was literally created by Torvalds (a Finn) while at the university of Helsinki (in Finland).


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u8080last Friday at 6:07 PM

I am not claiming "invention", my whole point here is that place of origin means nothing, especially for a FOSS project - despite Linus being important part of it.

If we talk about OS being independent from US, the culprit is where does control(both in terms of technology and legislation) comes from. Main contributors are US companies(technological control) while Linus is obligated to comply to US laws and decisions as US citizen.

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