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Not as surprising when you realize that 95% of tech startups in Silicon Valley are built on a foundation of Finnish software - Linux and MySQL.
by durbin 12y ago
Not as surprising when you realize that 95% of tech startups in Silicon Valley are built on a foundation of Finnish software - Linux and MySQL.
- BugBrother 12y agoOne of the MySQL founders is Finnish, but it was in Sweden. (InnoDB was Finnish, iirc.)
- durbin 12y agoMany people consider the Finnish founder, Michael Widenius, to be the main author of MySQL and it was named after his daughter My. I would definitely consider it to be Finnish software at the very least equal to, if not more than, Swedish.
- Gravityloss 12y agoand SSH and IRC...