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In case you think this is fake revisionism and computer revolution and Italians don't mix well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_Faggin https://en.wikiped
by antirez 9y ago
In case you think this is fake revisionism and computer revolution and Italians don't mix well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_Faggin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_Faggin
- lou1306 9y agoI would say that Redis counts as a counterexample, too :)
- antirez 9y agoYou too gente :-) Redis is just the incarnation of technology available, so it does not provide any real added value in perspective, however people like Faggin are not isolated cases. Italians insist in believing that the creative force of our country is something lost in the history, but this is not true. For sure in the latest decades there was a serious issue due to the fact that school, once very rigid, became a joke now.
- zedr 9y agoDo you think the gap was caused by a decline in the quality of education? I'm convinced the Italian software industry was set back in the Eighties due to the lack of laws protecting intellectual property. It was more convenient and risk-free to sell compilations of pirated software on datasettes in newspaper stands, than set up a software development company.