[Foundation-l] Internet nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

[Brian J Mingus]

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.