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From the guys who gave us OOP, css, and Qt to the guys who gave us the guy who gave us Linux. A mountain top. What's not to like?
by interfixus 11y ago
From the guys who gave us OOP, css, and Qt to the guys who gave us the guy who gave us Linux. A mountain top. What's not to like?
- dirtyaura 11y agoLinux, irc and MySQL.
- therobotking 11y agoWhat's not to like about Linux or IRC or even MySQL?
- tajen 11y agoThe back ticks to escape MySQL columns ;) But that doesn't remove the huge thanks for producing reliable OSS at such a level that it's a competitor to Oracle.
- Numberwang 11y agoWasnt MySQL Swedish?
- buovjaga 11y agoYou forgot Dovecot.
- dirtyaura 11y agoI forgot SSH, from the list of significant Finnish OSS projects, though I think original SSH by Tatu Ylönen was freeware, not OSS proper.
- vvpan 11y agoBuzz sequencer. But that's a niche software product.
- deleted 11y ago[deleted]
- kiiski 11y agoIt was started by Trolltech in Norway. It was only later sold to Nokia, and then to Digia.
- pi-rat 11y agoNope, QT is originally from Trolltech[1]. Nokia bought the company back in 2008. Later it was sold again, to Digia. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_(software)#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_(software)#History
- clamprecht 11y agoAnd Opera, and browser tabs, I believe. And the search box in browsers (from Opera).
- cwzwarich 11y agoTabbed browsing was present in Windows browsers before Opera. There were a lot of browsers that just embedded IE's Trident engine, and some of them had tabbed browsing. Wikipedia says that the first was NetCaptor in 1997. It does sort of make sense that this happened on Windows, because tabs are a natural variation on MDI.
- vvpan 11y agoWell, at least they took it mainstream.
- np422 11y agoLong cold winter nights gives plenty of time for hacking ...