Windows 7's latest fan: Linus Torvalds
Summary: Linus Torvalds, pictured at an unidentified Yodobashi store in Tokyo, Japan. Source: Chris Schlaeger (click to enlarge)I was determined to not write about Windows 7 today, because any analysis I wrote would get buried in all the other news.
Linus Torvalds, pictured at an unidentified Yodobashi store in Tokyo, Japan. Source: Chris Schlaeger (click to enlarge)
I was determined to not write about Windows 7 today, because any analysis I wrote would get buried in all the other news. I was going to wait to deliver my "last word" sometime next week. But then a co-worker emailed me the photo above, clearly of Linus Torvalds at the software counter at Yodobashi, a Japanese consumer electronics store in Tokyo in front of a huge display of Windows 7 boxes, giving it the international sign of recognition: Thumbs Up. I HAD to post that.
Of course, if you happen to be Japanese, the custom is to make the "V" sign rather than a "Thumbs Up" when you are being photographed, but I won't criticize Linus for his trivial knowledge gap.
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Do I actually believe Linus was endorsing Windows 7? No, he was in town for the Japan Linux Symposium. But it shows he has a clear sense of humor, understands tolerance, and knows how to lighten up when his Free Software counterparts are frothing at the mouth during one of the most important software launch days in Microsoft's history.
So is Linus Torvalds the latest entry on the Free Software Foundation's and Richard Stallman's "Traitors" list for daring to appear in front of a pile of Windows 7 boxes without lighting them on fire first? Talk Back and Let Me Know.
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Talkback
Linus is great....
While I can't stand Richard Stallman, Balmer, Jobs, I always will slow down and read about Linus. A nerd of the 1st class.
I totally agree
I would actually enjoy reading a review of Windows 7 by Linus because, unlike frothing at the mouth posters on ZDNet, I believe Linus would be able to put most of his bias aside and actually give it a fair review.
Bit much coming from you!
[i]unlike frothing at the mouth posters on ZDNet[/i]
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury I present this;
http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-17932-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=70749&messageID=1360106&tag=content;col1
and
http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-17932-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=70749&messageID=1359791&tag=content;col1
While I agree with what you are intemating, I'd count you among the "mouth-foamers" that make ZDNet a bit of a laughing stock amongst my colleagues an me.
I take it you know Jobs personally to qualify your ad hominem attack? Can you prove this as fact? I doubt it, certainly no more than any entrepreneur out there. That would make your slurs libelous and the ZDnet editor should really treat it as such and remove it. You are of course entitled to your opinions, as am I. I look forward to your inevitable accusations of being some sort of fanboy.
You have to look at the idiot I was responding to
Here is the thing.
It's a good thing you
the main thing is choice
I get frustrated with the ideologues who rave on about how their "religion" is superior and how all of the others will lead you to computing Hell.
Use what you like, use what works and lighten up............Linus does
Good Job Linus Torvalds
That's more that the Linux fan boys can do. Windoze this, and Micro$oft that... everything is a learning opportunity and there is stuff to admire about Windows 7.
Too bad
But I agree. Well put.
RE: Windows 7's latest fan: Linus Torvalds
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Seriously
It has its ups and downs, but then again... so does open source!
Tagged as good
Nothing is wrong
Same thing goes for the Cult of Jobs since they also seams to think that Windows is the devil's child or something.
PS: IMO, tech is the religion of the new millenium.
In the end, it's an OS.
Well Said!!!
We all need more humor in our lives! :-) Isn't laughter the best medicine?
I think that the fact the creator and founder of Linux, Linus Torvalds, to which the an amazing OS is named after - that being Linux, is showing his "thumb-up" for 7 shows :
1. He has a good sense of humor
2. He understands that "it's an OS"
3. An OS is a "tool on the toolkit"
So many people these days get "defensive" and caught up an the "OS Wars", of which is better, etc. They like to defend their "preference".
I have installed and used Linux, Windows, MacOSX, BeOS, etc. If there is anything I have learned is that all of them do one thing in common :
Install Software Applications.
Each of them provide a GUI to use the app,
in some shape or form, and that's it. Some look better than others too. But the simple fact is this:
Computers are made to run software. They are tools to do things. That's why we have them.
Hey, even Apple has issues and problems with their products, just like Windows PCs, and there's even issues with Linux apps too. Trust me i know. I hate "dependency issues". The point I am making is :
Nothing is perfect! Everything has problems.
Sometiems it's hardware, or software. or both.
And I do want to point of that Linux is a success story of the determination of the human spirit to produce something that works. I give kudus to Linus and his ideal to make an OS that would work, and to all the millions of people who helped produce it!
My preference now is Ubuntu Linux. But I could easily change over to something else. I don't care about what is better. I care about if it works!
The thumbs up by Linux shows that he understand that is just a tool, an OS. We all should realize this! Anyhow, just my "tidbits".
Knowledge gap?
make the ?V? sign rather than a ?Thumbs Up? when you are
being photographed, but I won?t criticize Linus for his trivial
knowledge gap."
Maybe not, what's thumbs up mean in Japan (particularly if
moving upwards)?
Not an insult in Japan.
In Japan it sometimes indicates "Boyfriend". So actually if you take it into context...
http://tinyurl.com/yfmfwkf
It also is used less frequently by the younger generation to say "Good", but not necessarily to the extent it is used in the US.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LeNRI2XdhI
Boyfriend
not really an insult in Australia
"good" "right" "OK" "yes" or "approval".
Thumbs down, like most cultures (I guess) just means "no", of a vote against something.
("to give something the 'thumbs down')
Linus is a pragmatist, im sure he will be trying out Win 7. And im sure he would have no issues with as he has said in the past.
"Using what does the job for him".
It's sad that people like Boycottnovell try to spin this into an attack of RMS or OSS.
Thumbs Up vs Thumbs Down...
Thumbs down in the gladiatorial arena meant put your sword down while the thumbs up signal (usually with a swipe across the neckline) meant to execute your opponent.
So his only saving grace in the eyes of the foaming at the mouth followers of Stahlman would be to say in the picture that Windows 7 must be destroyed...
Yeah... That's the ticket...