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Read This story written by Lars Wirzenius, speech given at 1998 Linux Expo.
There he states a well known fact (in Finland), that it was Ari Lemmke who gave Linux the name Linux.
Snippet from Liw's text:
The name Linux was not coined by Linus himself, strange though that may seem to people familiar with his self-esteem. It was coined by Ari Lemmke, the administrator at ftp.funet.fi who first made Linux available for FTP. Ari had to coin a name since Linus had failed to give a proper one, so Ari invented one and it stuck.
About algorithms - in which countries you can patent algorithms? Or worse, can you patent protocols and fileformats in US?
I don't know about other countries, but in Finland you can't patent these... Go and check yourself, all finnish laws and more. You can even do searches there, patent is 'patentti' in finnish;)
I'm just passing you a quote from this year's CIA World Factbook 1999, and what is said there about US and use of metric system. We all other countries are waiting, why is it taking so long?
Note: At this time, only three countries-Burma, Liberia, and the US-have not adopted the International System of Units (SI, or metric system) as their official system of weights and measures. Although use of the metric system has been sanctioned by law in the US since 1866, it has been slow in displacing the American adaptation of the British Imperial System known as the US Customary System. The US is the only industrialized nation that does not mainly use the metric system in its commercial and standards activities, but there is increasing acceptance in science, medicine, government, and many sectors of industry.
In Finland we have made the opposite. In the high-voltage power lines there are two lightning-conductors on the top of these three conductors actually delivering the power.
Now at least one of the lightning-conductors has a fiber line in it, which is then used to build a fast IP-backbone. The cable gets dozens of direct lightning hits every summer, but without any service degradation...
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Read This story written by Lars Wirzenius, speech given at 1998 Linux Expo.
There he states a well known fact (in Finland), that it was Ari Lemmke who gave Linux the name Linux.
Snippet from Liw's text:
DVB, Digital Video Broadcasting is the standard for European (and propably worldwide) digital television broadcasts.
The standard defines several modes for different transmission mediums, DVB-T for terrestrial, DVB-C for cable networks, and DVB-S for satellite.
And there are already digital AUDIO broadcasts, check this DAB, Digital Audio Broadcast site for more information.
About algorithms - in which countries you can patent algorithms? Or worse, can you patent protocols and fileformats in US?
I don't know about other countries, but in Finland you can't patent these... Go and check yourself, all finnish laws and more. You can even do searches there, patent is 'patentti' in finnish ;)
I'm just passing you a quote from this year's CIA World Factbook 1999, and what is said there about US and use of metric system. We all other countries are waiting, why is it taking so long?
In Finland we have made the opposite. In the high-voltage power lines there are two lightning-conductors on the top of these three conductors actually delivering the power.
Now at least one of the lightning-conductors has a fiber line in it, which is then used to build a fast IP-backbone. The cable gets dozens of direct lightning hits every summer, but without any service degradation...