Linus Torvalds Gives Windows 7 a Thumbs Up

In actuality, he was giving a thumbs up to Windows 7 . haha

Gotta love the guy :-P

Sure doesn't look like the middle finger. Yup, thumbs up. You're a sport. Call a spade a spade.

A good product is a good product proven to be good by many.
Even if President Obama were giving a thumbs down on Win7, it's still a good product.

OMG!
Either Hell must have frozen over or someone set him up!

now of course there will be a new mac ad targeting linux now.

he is moron

that Linus is really too nice a guy, if he was trying to communicate that MS was doing a good job with Win7.

what he probably meant was, Its nearly as good as the OS i wrote in my college dorm a decade or so ago.

He's smiling, and giving the thumbs up to indicate Windows 7 will indeed be Vista + Window Blinds and DesktopX.... :-D

Linus is the man...

Linus: The New Windows, now available with added Linux inspiration!!

he is a legend who fought until others acknowledged open-source.
I never thought he would ever associate himself with anything that is NOT open source.

makes me believe there maybe a gun pointed at him...

You can like a product and hate the principles it represents....you just can't use it.

I like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, but I will not be buying it. So I can give the console version a Thumbs up and the PC version a thumbs up its A$$.

Linux and Windows both have their ups and down. It's just like comparing OS X to Windows. Neither is better or worse.

Maybe Apple could learn something from Linus?

....but did he purchase a Windows 7 Whopper? Judging by his grin I bet he did!

Looks like he's happy to see another failure

That store is somewhat full of windblow$ retail copies and utterly empty of buyers... Maybe the crowd of eager m$ lu$ers is just waiting in front of the $hop. Or not?
Another resounding microsuxx $ucce$$ story... for delusional wintarded m$ fankiddies.

Right... Way to go m$!

Yeah sure, because when ever you take a picture in a public place, everyone around jumps in front of the camera man.

/sarcasm

That's the special event space in front of yodobashi camera Akiba, right next to the big LED screen. Which, I'll point out, does NOT run linux ^^!

he was thumbs up for a cup of green tea on his left hand

I'm sure even Jobs would buy the Windows 7 hopper (and then go back to a hospital again for a heart attack).

Is that a beer in his hand? Alcohol can make us do some mighty stupid things. =D

Maybe he just acknowledged all the work Microsoft has done to fix their previous mistakes, open source or not, it still benefits the masses.
Or he had a gun pointed at him and was drinking to make it easier to forget...

If you check the original article you'll see that the whole thing was a bit of a joke.

I wouldn't read too much into it.

The person you speak about name is Richard Stallman.

I like the overkill with a yellow bar attached to a cone, I'm sure it was useful when they had to barricade the flood of buyers that amounted to precisely 0.

People come up with the craziest crap ever. Nice picture.

He's showing thumbs up because the shop doesn't have buyers.

and what is that?! would you be more specific please?!! thanks!

Haha...!
Thumbs up for Linus! Now I would like to see Steve Ballmer hugging a penguin!

Yet anoher example of the sensationalist headlines that have been running rampant here lately. Seriously Marcus, give it a rest.

He was giving a "thumbs up" to the photographer that just commented that all those copies of Win 7 were still on the shelves.