[Golden Eagle]

Linux is from Finland, created by a foreigner who didn't want to pay for US products. The main American behind Linux is Richard Stallman, the biggest leftist in tech. Funny watching you try to deny it.

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

^^^^^^^^^Linux is from Finland^^^^^^^^^^

Linux by itself is simply a kernel. But surely you knew that.

^^^^^^^^^The main American behind Linux is Richard Stallman, the biggest leftist in tech. Funny watching you try to deny it.^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

So where did I say Stallman is a right winger? This I've gotta see.

The main entity behind linux is IBM. IBM is a great success story in *AMERICAN* technology. And of course the main linux-only company is Red Hat. another american success story.

Funny watching you try to deny it.

[bigdcaldavis]

Spare us your allusions of "Linux is communist". Linux is about freedom. Freedom to choose. We are free to choose what operating system we wish to use. Microsoft is a globalist empire created by a four-eyed globalist UN ass-kisser who only got laid because he's filthy rich. If it weren't for the money, Bill Gates would be a 50+ year old virgin.

Look at it this way : Microsoft is not in the business of providing top-quality software. They're in the business of making tons of money, even if they have to resort to putting out a crappy product which they sugarcoat with stuff like "Windows can play DVDs out of the box" and "Windows can play MP3s out of the box". I've spent enough time with Xandros Linux to know how to get DVDs to play with Xine, and MP3s already play out of the box.

[rzeznikj at stout]

And Linux was based on Minix, which was written by Andrew Tannenbaum, a professor at Vrije Universiteit in the Netherlands.

Minix was written to teach the basics of an operating system by providing a simple OS based on SysV Unix.

For the record, while Prof. Tannenbaum lives and teaches in the Netherlands, he retains his U.S. citizenship.

That's right. The guy who inspired Torvalds to create Linux is an American.

[rzeznikj at stout]

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[antiRepublicrat]

Corrected: Linux is from originated in Finland (although most of the current code is not from Finland), created by a foreigner who didn't want to pay for US foreign products.

It cannot be ignorance on your part since I've corrected you before, so it must be something else, maybe stupidity.