Several people already noticed - this sounds more like a religious debate than anything else. So what if Linus decided to get a Nexus One? Does the Earth stop spinning? No. Does that mean that Android is `better` Linux than N900? No. The man has chosen what he finds the most suitable for his needs, and that's fine. I wouldn't hold it against him even if he'd chosen an iPhone.

And Linus is not Linux. He might have written the original kernel, and contributed to it greatly, but he's just a man. If you really need someone to worship (and you shouldn't), worship Richard Stallman - he is the most responsible person for what we came to identify as Linux and FOSS. With or without Linus, somebody would eventually write a kernel relying on GNU tools; without RMS there would be no GNU at all. And in this day and age, when someone thinks of Linux, he thinks of GNU/Linux, not just the kernel itself. In that aspect, Maemo is far more of a `Linux platform` than Android.

Don't be such iTools, Linus is not Jobsy - I can understand Apple hard-core fans being disappointed and revolted if Jobsy used, let's say, Windows on his computer, as he is a self-proclaimed Messiah - Linus never claimed that he knows what's best for you, nor he held a monopoly on the notion of what Linux is, and if someone has a long-term memory he'll remember that Linus always went with what he thinks is useful for him, not necessarily what platform does it use or how GNU/FOSS/Linux compliant it is.