Linus Torvalds

Linus Torvalds, who is not only the Creator and All-Father but also a pleasant-looking man, has commented on Android and the wider Linux-on-mobile-devices issue, in this interview with Reuters.

I haven't been personally involved but it certainly looks like 2008 may be, thanks to the Google Alliance, one of the years you will find more widely available phones with Linux...It used to be that they are so expensive that, by necessity, most people even in the industrialised [sic] world ... would not go for a smartphone. Quite frankly, Linux makes much more sense in a smartphone than it makes in a really low-end product

Nothing here on how He feels about Google's implementation, whether He's played with Android; basically, there's nothing really juicy here. It is nice to now that His gaze is on the project, however.