Amir E. Aharoni wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 01:40, Brian J Mingus > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Thomas Dalton <[email protected] >> >>> We're the biggest non-profit website in the world. That sounds like >>> argument for us to get the prize money to me. >>> >> The Internet is definitely worthy of the prize as a whole but I'm not >> following the logic that for-profit websites are more deserving. Google, >> for >> example, is a major force for peace. In fact it is the biggest popularizer >> of Wikimedia content. >> > Yes, but Google doesn't really need the prize money. > > Although giving it all to Wikimedia is probably not quite right either Need has never been a factor in awarding these prizes. They are often made many years after the person's work is done; the need was probably greatest when they were doing their research.
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