>> 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 w

>> 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.