Nexus One First Phone Linus Torvalds "Doesn't Hate"

SpuriousLogic writes "Linus Torvalds, the inventor of the Linux kernel, has an absolute disdain for mobile phones. All of the ones he has purchased in the past, the man writes on his personal blog, ended up being 'mostly used for playing Galaga and Solitaire on long flights' even though they were naturally all phones run on open source operating systems. Things have changed now, he adds, now that he has caved and bought Google's Nexus One a couple of days ago."

Re:He bought one?

[Philip K Dickhead]

Hell. Now even Linus is slave to the Google panopticon.

Hope you like your new, NSA hotline, Mr. Torvalds!

He hates mobile phones?!

[SaidinUnleashed]

How can a Finnish man hate mobile phones?! Aren't they like the national bird there, or something?

Re:He hates mobile phones?!

[LWATCDR]

Yea you would think the would have an N900 wouldn't you?
He has sold out his own birth Nation! How dare he!
Naw it is just a phone and the Nexus one is a pretty nice one at that.

Mislabelled

[grub]

This phone shall be referred to as the "GNU/Nexus One with GNU/Linux".
Now excuse me, I have to comb my beard.

Richard

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So that's who that is!

[noidentity]

Linus Torvalds, the inventor of the Linux kernel, has an absolute disdain for mobile phones.

Finally, an article summary that explainings who some obscure person is, rather than assuming we know everyone in the tech universe.

stupid Linus

[martas]

he could've made serious $$ if he charged google for expressing this opinion. imagine all the linux devotees who are going to buy it now. i mean, there's gotta be, like, at least 10 who can afford it!

Re:He bought one?

[Anonymous Coward]

I think you'll find he's actually called GNU/Linus Torvalds - he's only responsible for the kernel, not the hardware, service contracts or any free gifts.

Re:Mislabelled

[jareth-0205]

I call fake!

RMS has never combed his beard.

Re:but...

[Airline_Sickness_Bag]

This is about Linus Torvalds, not Tiger Woods.

Re:So he uses the phone for GPS While Driving?

[Score Whore]

Nope, it's dumb to spend a couple grand on an in dash unit and then pay out the butt yearly for updates.

You know, when people are reaching back behind themselves whenever they need money... they're not digging around in their asses. They have this thing called a wallet and you put money in it. Then you put the wallet in your pocket. And thus you see people reaching back whenever they need some cash.

It's a lot easier than stuffing rolls of coins and wads of cash up your rectum. More hygienic too.

Re:So he uses the phone for GPS While Driving?

[dubbreak]

It's a lot easier than stuffing rolls of coins and wads of cash up your rectum. More hygienic too.

However there can be benefits to storing coinage up your rectum.

If you were to say store unrolled rolls of pennies up your rectum then spend them at locations your boss visits then he would surely get some of that change when shopping there. Next time he goes to buy his kid an ice cream or take his wife out for coffee he's using money that has come from your rectum! You just can't buy that kind of superiority.

You think you're better than me? Oh, you're not better than me. You handle my ass pennies every day. You pick up my ass pennies for good luck. You throw my ass pennies in fountains and make wishes on them.

Re:He bought one?

[morgauxo]

Phones suck, they ring and people expect you to interrupt what your doing to answer and then blab on about something unimportant or confirm plans for the umteenth time about something that's still a year off anyway.

I want my phone to be a pocket sized computer with an available everywhere (that I go) data connection. Anything else is just annoying.

Re:He bought one?

[RockDoctor]

He's not just a geek, he's a Finn. They're not very demonstrative of their feelings, to say the least.

You've obviously not slept with the same Finns that I have.