[Foundation-l] Internet nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

[Brian J Mingus]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Brian <Brian.Mingus at colorado.edu> wrote:

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> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8560469.stm
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>> We're the biggest non-profit website in the world. That sounds like
>> argument for us to get the prize money to me.
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> 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.
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Oops, I meant not-for-profit -sorry.