On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 00:36 -0800, Ronald Chmara wrote: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 3:18 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Holy crap people! The whole Nobel Prize is a joke considering it is named > > after the man who invented high explosive. > > As I recall the story: He was (wrongly) declared dead. Obituaries were > run. This did not make him happy, as he was still very much breathing. > He noted that his chemistry history, and the resulting obituary > announcements, focused on his contributions to war, not peace. > > That being said, I'd spread the award among Linus, RMS, and Jimbo > Wales, for creating/enabling their globally used tools, and sites, > that transcend culture, people, politics, and nations.
Hmmm, unless I'm missing something, I think of Jimbo Wales primarily with Wikipedia. While that is an amazing achievement in and of itself, it seems to be a different topic from Linux. Alternatively, I could see a prize being awarded to Linus and the Open Source community, as represented by the FSF. At least on the surface, that type of split would be similar to '97 prize split between Jody Williams and the Landmine campaign. I think it would better suit how Stallman pushes GNU with Linux. IMO, the real ongoing achievement of Linux is how it spreads knowledge of technology in developing nations, bringing that power to the poorest of the poor through national-focused distributions and projects such as OLPC. Thanks, Mike _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
