[Foundation-l] Internet nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

Thu Mar 11 07:12:10 UTC 2010

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 01:40, Brian J Mingus <Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu>wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com
> >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.

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