[oclug] Linux Leads or Follows?

[miden]

On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 20:39 -0400, Jon Earle wrote:
> Stephen Gregory wrote:
> >
> > On 7-Apr-07, at 13:35 , miden wrote:
> >
> >> Is there any area where Linux or Open Source developers have led the
> >> way, invented something new, rather than followed others?
> >
> > Only this little thing called the Internet.
> 
> Which was invented at least 20yrs before Linus was welcomed to the world with
> a "Honey, I'm pregnant."
> 

I wonder why she used english to tell Linus' father that she was pregnant?