Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 01:40, Brian J Mingus Brian.Mingus@colorado.eduwrote:
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton@gmail.com
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
Need has never been a factor in awarding these prizes. They are often made many years after the person's work is done; the need was probably greatest when they were doing their research.
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