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Re:Spanish Wikipedia also shuts down in protest at proposed ... by Cort3z on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @07:06PM (#17459915)
The EU says sorry for making Linux
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Re:Spanish Wikipedia also shuts down in protest at proposed ... by Retric on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @07:44PM (#17460015)
You mean that reimplemention of US originated UNIX, managed by the guy who moved to the US? ;-)
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Re:Spanish Wikipedia also shuts down in protest at proposed ... by EpicEng on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @08:50PM (#17460235)
UNIX was invented in the US and Linus came over to the states, so...
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Re:Spanish Wikipedia also shuts down in protest at proposed ... by aclsid on Thursday July 05, 2018 @12:17AM (#17460819)
Although I'm a big fan of Linus, it is unfair to say that he created the whole platform. I would argue that there is a big percentage of US contributed code to it and don't get me started on the GNU/Linux thing
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Re:Spanish Wikipedia also shuts down in protest at proposed ... by dgut on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @07:51PM (#17460041)
To be fair, there wouldn't be any Linux without Unix & C, but there would definitely exist many other "Linux", e.g the __superior__ FreeBSD. Not diminishing Linux's achievements in any way. :-)
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Re:Spanish Wikipedia also shuts down in protest at proposed ... by Lennu on Thursday July 05, 2018 @02:55AM (#17461336)
One could say, to be fair, there wouldn't be any Unix & C without the mathematics of Gottfried Leibniz from Germany. This discussion is ridiculous.

https://www.google.com/doodles/gottfried-wilhelm-leibnizs-37...

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Re:Spanish Wikipedia also shuts down in protest at proposed ... by arcticbull on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @08:18PM (#17460120)
And the world-wide web (Tim Berners-Lee at CERN)
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Re:Spanish Wikipedia also shuts down in protest at proposed ... by blfr on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @08:40PM (#17460194)
Even Linus left for the US.
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