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Gravityloss on March 18, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Nokia N900: the future that wasn’t

No, he's from University of Helsinki.

Gravityloss on March 18, 2021 [–]

It's kind of funny that nothing notable in the open source world came out of Aalto. Linus Torvalds and Tatu Ylönen (ssh) studied in University of Helsinki while University of Oulu's Jarkko Oikarinen created IRC.

_vbnz on March 18, 2021 | [–]

That's an incredible output for such a small country really.

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