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  • FreeFacts@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    Linux. Finland.

    Wouldn’t have been created without the free universal education that provided Torvalds the free access to university’s licenses and hardware.

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      Big one. Basically the whole modern world depends on Linux and I don’t even think that’s too much of an exaggeration

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    New Zealand. We built the first mechanical computer, the Totalizer. (Babbage designed one first, but never completed a working model.) We used it to calculate odds for horse races. It was gravity-powered and used the weight of a concrete block on a rope to turn gears.