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] >>> wrote: >>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8560469.stm >>> >>> 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.
Give the Nobel Peace Prize to DARPA for designing the Internet. And they've made so many other excellent contributions to peace, like unmanned bombers and anti-missile lasers. Seriously, the only reason I can think of that the committee would choose "the internet" as a recipient is if they wanted to make an even more bizarre choice than last year. -- Tim Starling _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
