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> Linux came from Finland, not the U.S. Not really. Linux is a clone of Unix, developed by Bell Labs in the USA, and Linus' salary over decades has come from
by redis_mlc 6y ago
> Linux came from Finland, not the U.S.
Not really.
Linux is a clone of Unix, developed by Bell Labs in the USA, and Linus' salary over decades has come from US companies (Transmeta) and foundations (The Linux Foundation.)
- Supermancho 6y ago>> Linux came from Finland, not the U.S. > Not really. Yes really. Linux is technically Unix-like, wherein the code is original. The closest analogue is BSD which is based off the Unix source code. This history notwithstanding, the re-implementation of Unix came from Finland, not the US. Software is almost universally designed and built from the lessons of other software. This doesn't discount the achievements.