Language change proposal

[Bengt Kleberg]

jonathan@REDACTED wrote:
> On 1 Nov 2003 at 13:30, Richard Carlsson wrote:
> 
> 
>>Joachim Durchholz wrote:
>>
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>>And please note that if Linus had coded using his mother tongue,
>>he would have written in Swedish, not Finnish.
>>
>>	/Richard
> 
> 
> I suspect this is now a common belief - the Linux equivalent "Finux" 
> in Neal Stephenson's novel "Cryptonomicon" is Finnish. 
> 

presumably everybody already knows, but anyway:

finland is a bilingual country (like belgium, perhaps?). most people 
living there speak finish, but some speak swedish. mr torvalds could be 
finish, but speak/write swedish.


bengt