<story><title>A guide to freelancing in Finland</title><url>https://github.com/sam-hosseini/freelancing-in-finland</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rasjani</author><text>Few foss projects and authors  that started in this god forsaken country, Finland:&lt;p&gt;Linux - Linus Torvalds.  Finn
Ssh  - Tatu Ylönen. Finn
IRC - Jarkko Oikarinen. Finn.
Dovecot - Timo Sirainen. Finn. 
Robot Framework - Pekka Klarck. Finn.&lt;p&gt;And maybe not fortune100 or even 500 companies but companies like Nokia,  F-secure, Futuremark have had their global impact.  And  Yeah. These are old tech already but saying that no innovations came out out of Finland or Europe is just plain bullsh*t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fsloth</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m a bit familiar with finnish industrial history. Finland has a history of massively innovative companies that were decades ahead of their competition in several sectors. The thing that they did not have, was capital funding, so they could not grow, and experience of global markets to have the know how to grow. So they remained small shops, with one or two big industrial clients who did not care to help them grow, and the world caught up with them.&lt;p&gt;The ones that managed to grow, are exceptions. Nokia and Kone are probably the more familiar ones (look at the next elevator you ride, there&amp;#x27;s a 50&amp;#x2F;50 chance it&amp;#x27;s made by Kone).&lt;p&gt;Finland is a capital poor country but rich in ideas.</text></comment>
<story><title>A guide to freelancing in Finland</title><url>https://github.com/sam-hosseini/freelancing-in-finland</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rasjani</author><text>Few foss projects and authors  that started in this god forsaken country, Finland:&lt;p&gt;Linux - Linus Torvalds.  Finn
Ssh  - Tatu Ylönen. Finn
IRC - Jarkko Oikarinen. Finn.
Dovecot - Timo Sirainen. Finn. 
Robot Framework - Pekka Klarck. Finn.&lt;p&gt;And maybe not fortune100 or even 500 companies but companies like Nokia,  F-secure, Futuremark have had their global impact.  And  Yeah. These are old tech already but saying that no innovations came out out of Finland or Europe is just plain bullsh*t.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kinow</author><text>Skosmos (used by unicef and EU) and Annif too, both from the national library. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;natlibfi&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;natlibfi&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>