On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 10:16 AM, David R. Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
Why not give in the ACM Turing award? He seems better qualified for anyway. http://awards.acm.org/homepage.cfm?awd=140 Andrew > 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 <[email protected]> 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 [email protected]. >> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> >> [email protected]. >> >> 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 [email protected]. >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > [email protected]. >> > 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 [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> 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 [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > 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 [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=.
