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Companies like Facebook are global now, and we call them American because of where they were founded / where they are still HQ'd. Linux doesn't have a HQ or a
by swores 3y ago
Companies like Facebook are global now, and we call them American because of where they were founded / where they are still HQ'd.
Linux doesn't have a HQ or a stock market it's listed on, so isn't the place it was founded a reasonable choice if trying to describe it as anything other than "global"?
Of course the EU can't claim to own it, just as they can't claim to own BMW if they chose to move all operations out of Europe, but we'd probably still call BMW a European / German company until it becomes established as being more to do with another single location rather than just all round the world.
- Rinzler89 3y agoThere's a difference between something being "European" and something having started in Europe. Linux is not a private enterprise with an HQ in Europe so just because it started in Europe in the past, doesn't mean it's European today. Especially when the guy who started it all is now a US citizen living and working on the Linux kernel from the US with most of the funding for the contributions coming from US companies. So shouldn't it be American now?