If we award it to Linus and then next year RMS we have two years without a politician winning the award. If nothing else it would help to improve the image of the award.
Dave On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 10:03 -0600, andrew mcelroy wrote: > On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 9:31 AM, David R. Wilson <da...@wwns.com> wrote: > > That looks like a great idea to me. > > > > Dave > > > > On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 03:29 -0600, Russ Crawford wrote: > >> I can get behind this. > >> > >> http://www.ridenbaugh.com/index.php/2009/11/18/a-northwest-nobel-option/ > >> > >> Linus would be an excellent addition to this list: > > O come on! Torvalds? > > If anything it needs to be split between RMS and Torvalds. > > Without the legal framework that RMS and friends came up with > Linux could have remained proprietary or even BSD licensed, which would > essentially lead to OSX. > > >From wikipedia: > http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel > > "In the start, Torvalds released Linux under a license which did not > allow anyone to sell it. This was soon changed to the GNU General > Public License (GPL), during version 0.12. This license allows > distribution and sale of modified and unmodified versions of Linux but > requires that all those copies be released under the same license and > be accompanied by the complete corresponding source code." > > > Andrew > > > >> > >> http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/index.html > >> > >> -- > >> > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > >> "NLUG" group. > >> To post to this group, send email to nlug-t...@googlegroups.com. > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > >> For more options, visit this group at > >> http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=. > >> > > > > -- > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "NLUG" group. > > To post to this group, send email to nlug-t...@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=. > > > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to nlug-t...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=.
