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Re:Linus Torvalds defends his right to shame Linux kernel de... by sp332 on Tuesday July 16, 2013 @01:55PM (#6053501)
Sorry to break it to you, but he was born in Helsinki. Edit: OK I guess this is more complicated than I thought :)
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Re:Linus Torvalds defends his right to shame Linux kernel de... by jlgreco on Tuesday July 16, 2013 @01:57PM (#6053516)
True, though Linus was a part of the Swedish speaking minority in Finland.
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Re:Linus Torvalds defends his right to shame Linux kernel de... by bjornsteffanson on Tuesday July 16, 2013 @02:00PM (#6053548)
Geographically, sure. Culturally - not at all.
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Re:Linus Torvalds defends his right to shame Linux kernel de... by Ras_ on Thursday July 18, 2013 @07:26AM (#6062849)
Yes, I believe another Finnish Swede active in this scene is somewhat more culturally Swedish - Monty Widenius, founder of MySQL/MariaDB.

On the other hand Linus' father is a Member of the European Parliament for Swedish People's Party of Finland, and was until 2011 the party vice chairman. But he (Nils) has been quite relaxed about things like mandatory Swedish education, which most Finnish Swedes dearly cling on to.

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