I woke up on the morning of October 9th to find that President Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize. As I read his acceptance speech, I thought about Free and Open Source Software, and applied parts of his speech to my favorite subject.
Full story »I woke up on the morning of October 9th to find that President Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize. As I read his acceptance speech, I thought about Free and Open Source Software, and applied parts of his speech to my favorite subject.
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lozz
14 years 26 weeks 6 days 21 hours ago
Nobel, not noble
"and the fifth prize is to be given to the person or society that renders the greatest service to the cause of international fraternity, in the suppression or reduction of standing armies, or in the establishment or furtherance of peace congresses. There is no prize awarded for mathematics"(Wikipedia)
Seeing the Nobel "Prize" was founded by the armaments industry and its provenance was from the sale of high explosives and the bloody deaths of untold millions of human beings: NO, GNU/Linux does not "deserve" the Nobel Prize.
It "deserves" much, much better.
Let's leave the Nobel "Prize" to those who truly deserve, and who regularly receive, this revolting award.