A Tokyo moment

[Posted October 22, 2009 by corbet]

The release of Windows 7 happened to coincide with the Japan Linux Symposium in Tokyo. Linus Torvalds was clearly quite impressed - and Chris Schlaeger was there to capture the moment. The original picture is available over here.

See also: Len Brown's photos from the kernel summit and JLS.

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A Tokyo moment

Posted Oct 22, 2009 15:17 UTC (Thu) by glandium (guest, #46059) [Link] (1 responses)

Someone should bring Linus to the Linux Café, which, like the Summit, is in Akihabara:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gnurou/2544691079/

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Posted Oct 23, 2009 8:35 UTC (Fri) by wsa (guest, #52415) [Link]

Thanks for mentioning this one! Will definately visit it when I am in Tokyo next year.

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Posted Oct 22, 2009 16:06 UTC (Thu) by kragil (guest, #34373) [Link] (12 responses)

A lot of Linux hating Redmond fans will love this picture. But I think it cool. Everybody with a brain will get it.

Nice to see Linus has the cool socks&sandals thing going ;)

On the other hand...

Posted Oct 22, 2009 17:29 UTC (Thu) by Max.Hyre (subscriber, #1054) [Link] (1 responses)

Why do I suspect we won't see one of Bill giving a thumbs-up in front of Tux? :-)

On the other hand...

Posted Oct 22, 2009 18:29 UTC (Thu) by marduk (guest, #3831) [Link]

> Why do I suspect we won't see one of Bill giving a thumbs-up in front of Tux? :-)

I once saw him do tha... oh, wait.. that wasn't his thumb ;-)

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Posted Oct 22, 2009 19:20 UTC (Thu) by epa (subscriber, #39769) [Link] (7 responses)

A lot of Linux hating Redmond fans

Do such people exist? I've never met anyone who actually *liked* Windows, or Microsoft. (Long ago there was a 'Dave Cutler fan club' for the designer of VMS and Windows NT, but I'd be surprised if even these people were holding launch parties for Windows 7.)

Indeed, to characterize anyone at all as 'Linux hating' or 'Microsoft lover' is a fairly unhelpful mindset, in my view.

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Posted Oct 22, 2009 20:05 UTC (Thu) by Trelane (guest, #56877) [Link]

As much as linux-loving Redmond-haters do. It takes all kinds.... :(

Oh yes, they exist

Posted Oct 22, 2009 22:16 UTC (Thu) by felixfix (subscriber, #242) [Link] (3 responses)

I had a runin with one once. I had been fighting a really annoying pagination bug in Word, whereby it would print the past page as "33 of 32" if you made even the slightest change, and it would take plenty of screwing around with print preview etc to get it back to sanity.

This idiot interrupted me just when I was about to start screaming and told me there were no bugs in Microsoft products, that it was all operator error. He was dead serious about this as he always had been about all Microsoft products. He would have invited Bill Gates to be his best man if he were getting married. And no, it was not a joke. He never once showed the slightest sense of humor about anything, ever. I disinvited him from my cubicle and went back to my task and eventually got it working again.

Yes, those people do indeed exist.

Oh yes, they exist

Posted Oct 23, 2009 3:26 UTC (Fri) by gus3 (guest, #61103) [Link]

This person needed a serious dressing-down from his higher-ups.

Of course, the easiest come-back is, "If Windows has no bugs, why does it need Patch Tuesdays?"

Oh yes, they exist

Posted Oct 23, 2009 8:42 UTC (Fri) by epa (subscriber, #39769) [Link] (1 responses)

I've never felt it worth my time to work out the magic voodoo to get page numbers in Word. I just write them on by hand afterwards.

Oh yes, they exist

Posted Nov 6, 2009 0:38 UTC (Fri) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

If I want to do anything more complicated than the SIMPLEST word processing, I use WordPerfect.

Apart from the MICROSOFT bugs (of which it contains too many :-(, it works PERFECTly.

Cheers,
Wol

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Posted Oct 23, 2009 22:55 UTC (Fri) by njs (subscriber, #40338) [Link] (1 responses)

> Do such people exist? I've never met anyone who actually *liked* Windows, or Microsoft.

Dude, this is humanity. People will form tribes-for-tribes-sake around *anything*.

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Posted Oct 24, 2009 6:18 UTC (Sat) by jordanb (guest, #45668) [Link]

Especially something regarded as representing marketable skill...

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Posted Oct 30, 2009 15:05 UTC (Fri) by dion (guest, #2764) [Link]

I read that as "Linux hating Raymond fans" and didn't quite get it.

... although I suspect there are quite a few Raymond hating Linux fans:)

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Posted Nov 2, 2009 20:00 UTC (Mon) by leoc (guest, #39773) [Link]

The perpetrators of violence in this story were certainly not fans of Linux or Open Source.

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Posted Oct 22, 2009 16:15 UTC (Thu) by Quazatron (guest, #4368) [Link]

Software with a sense of humour, that's our motto :-)

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Posted Oct 23, 2009 8:08 UTC (Fri) by yoshi314 (guest, #36190) [Link] (1 responses)

i just hope that ms marketing team won't try to use that photo. it would
perfectly suit them, or it might awfully backfire on them ;)

now that i think of it - i hope they do try. can't wait to see what happens
:]

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Posted Oct 29, 2009 16:21 UTC (Thu) by SEMW (guest, #52697) [Link]

> i hope they do try. can't wait to see what happens

You mean apart from Chris Schlaeger suing them for copyright infringement?

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Posted Oct 24, 2009 9:39 UTC (Sat) by russelljohn (guest, #57603) [Link]

Picture of the year!

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Posted Oct 27, 2009 3:20 UTC (Tue) by AJWM (guest, #15888) [Link]

Heh. Note the still well-stocked shelves, and the complete lack of a crowd of customers. (Not to mention the about-to-ROTFL expression Linus is wearing.) Great pic.

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Posted Dec 8, 2020 19:21 UTC (Tue) by len.brown@intel.com (guest, #97616) [Link]

Len Brown's photos moved here: https://photos.app.goo.gl/SAytENvjDkrdK9fAA