[Foundation-l] Internet nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

[David Gerard]

On 10 March 2010 23:40, 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.


Vint Cerf is alive and well and working at Google ;-)


- d.