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M$ Begins long slow decline
voidmain:
You could make that case although he wasn't very far along with the kernel before opening it up worldwide. And he immediately wrapped it in GNU/FSF so that part certainly was worldwide code.
Calum:
clever chap, regardless of where he is from! now i think about it, i'm off to look up what he's doing nowadays...
lu666s:
> but isn't he one of the minority of Danish speaking Finns?
Calum, your knowledge of geography and linguistics is truly amazing! :D
I would expect something of this sort from someone in US, but in UK (I believe that's where you live, correct me if I am wrong)
Well, you could probably search for something like map of Europe in google... and find out that Finnland is as far from Denmark as whole noth-south length of UK and a tiny bit more. I am not saying there can't be a Finn speaking danish, but it is quite unlikely, there may be perhaps 5 or 10 such people and that could hardly be called a minority. Some Finns speak swedish, Some up north speak norwegian and quite a few speak lapp, a lingo that is closer to chukcha and realted to inuit and Lapps are a distinct ethnic group, herding reindeer in freaking cold of the polar circle. Finish lingo, though is unrelated to germanic scandinavian languages and belongs to ugro-finnish language group (ugro for hungarian), albeit both of them are mutually unintelligible.
End of lesson.
Calum:
:confused: well that was easily sorted out!
you learn something wrong every day!
and i reckon 5 or 10 danish speakers is DEFINITELY a minority ;) although the likelihood of Mr Torvalds being one of them is understandably slim.
Thanks for putting me straight, you should know, if you are European, though that us Brits are totally ignorant of anything else that goes on in Europe. (actually i am not a Brit by choice, i'd prefer Scotland to be independent of England completely but that's another matter...)
Plus, compared with, say the US, or Canada, or Australia, or Russia, Denmark is practically next door to Finland!
I suppose i should say i was just seeing how long i could fool the Americans! but that would be a lie, i was just ignorant! :D My brain runs Windows 98 you see, memory leaks all over the place!!!
lu666s:
> i reckon 5 or 10 danish speakers is DEFINITELY a minority
In my book that would be just a handfull of dudes.
...you should know, if you are European,
Well only formerly, I am living in Great White North, as yanks would put it.
> though that us Brits are totally ignorant of anything else that goes on in Europe.
In my experience, it is not so, I know some Brits and they seem to be better of than what is usual here.
> actually i am not a Brit by choice, i'd prefer Scotland
Ah! That explains it ...so it's just Scotts, perhaps... :D :D
> I suppose i should say i was just seeing how long i could fool the Americans!
Yes, you could, no one would notice. Except me
> My brain runs Windows 98 you see, memory leaks all over the place!!!
Excuses! :D :D
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