Verily I say unto thee, that Tony(UK) spake thusly:
> Like saying Ubuntu is African or from the USA - both of these
> statements are wrong - Ubuntu is from the Isle of Man!
Canonical's /servers/ are in the Isle of Man (presumably for reasons to
do with software patents). Canonical's /founder/ is from South Africa.
Most of Canonical's developers are probably from the US (although if one
counts the whole of the EU as a single state, then it's probably a close
call). The again, South Americans seem to be extremely ubiquitous in the
Free Software community too.
All distros have their geographical origins, but in terms of who
actually contributes, ultimately they are all simply from "the World".
Free Software is a great leveller.
--
K.
http://slated.org
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| "The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which
| the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf
| denounces him for the same act, as the destroyer of liberty.
| Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of
| the word liberty; and precisely the same difference prevails today
| among human creatures." ~ Abraham Lincoln
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