Am I the only one who finds it a bit funny that Linus Torvalds' 65 year old writer/politician dad bought an N900?

I keep hearing about how the N900 is a geek phone and how it isn't ready for the masses etc etc, and people keep saying, "I'm a geek, so I love the N900, but I wouldn't recommend it to my mom," but this is quite a humorous role reversal in my eyes...