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Linus Torvalds For Nobel Peace Prize?
An anonymous reader writes "I'm as much of a Linux fanboy as anyone else, but I've never thought of anything in computing as being worth a Nobel Peace Prize. Apparently, there are those who take global collaboration seriously, though..." The suggestion has been bouncing around the Portland Linux community, where Torvalds lives. Is it worthy of wider attention and discussion?
Does this suggest that Bill Gates and Paul Allen should also get the Nobel Peace Prize?
Or, does it suggest that they should get the War Prize?
What about the guy who invented Minix? Should he get the prize too?
I know I'm responding to a troll article, but I can't help it.
I'm confused, why would we nominate Theo instead? I knew almost nothing about the guy (as I'm more for linux and just never bother with bsd) but his wikipedia entry is pretty brutal.
Oh yee of much (intentional?) ignorance...(or perhaps an MS troll...)
Start reading here:
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-na-gatesx7jan07-sg,0,2046572.storygallery
(Or just type latimes.com/gates into a browser)
And continue researching on the internet to find other evil(s) done by B. Gates and MS, etc.
He's probably done more HARM to getting computers and, dare I say, non-working, non-functional, BSOD computers into the public eye than anyone else.
Why are so many computer-illiterate? Thank B.Gates and MS for scaring people off computers due to their junk systems...
Microsoft Windows...the MacDonalds of the computer world...definitely NOT Nobel material.
He created a multinational project of cooperation between tons of people all over the globe and made a project that has helped change the computer industry and lower costs, making computing more affordable for everyone. Sounds good to me.
So did Bill Gates.
Don't even call McCain GW Bush II.
Yes, McCain was generally a bad leader with bad policies, but it devalues the horrible things the GW Bush administration did to this country and the world.
His reign needs to be remembered for the shit job that it did, so it doesn't help lumping every politician you don't like in with him.
Lets see Obama's as well...
I believe the main one was not being a petulant cokehead while at the controls of the most powerful organization the world has ever seen.
Actually I think the committee should have awarded the prize to the American voter for finally electing an adult to our highest office.
Literalism isn't a form of humor, it's you being irritating.
Hey, I’m not Bush either! And so is my dog!
Can I have two? :D
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
Care to cite that we are at war because of a writing in the Bible?
Sure. See http//www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=library&page=haught_29_5 for example. According to Jacques Chirac, Bush told him that invasion of Iraq was necessary to prevent the war of Gog and Magog as prophesied in Ezekiel.
Stallman, for writing the GPL
Yeah give the peace prize to a guy who wrote one of the most contentious documents in OSS history. Right good one! I like the way you think.
Why bother
People. Slashdot. Senators (Joe Wilson?). Talk show hosts (non-conservative).
Regarding Joe Wilson, which was high profile... here's my view: Yes, he was definitely wrong and "out of decorum" or whatever. But he got a huge amount of backlash - plenty more than people got for saying the same things to and about Bush (not sure if it was on the floor though). So Wilson was wrong, I agree. And I'm a Republican.
But to say that Wilson told Obama that he was lying because Joe Wilson is a racist is absolutely ridiculous. Unless they know something that I don't know.
And there was the entire campaign where Obama himself referred to racism and that the Republican campaign was going to use it... before it occurred (I don't think it actually did occur, there are plenty of black conservatives, too!).
Jimmy Carter said it was racism, by the way.
Janeane Garofalo apparently said that the "tea parties" were about racism... on MSNBC.
ABC News has another one that implies death threats and violent threats - which I do NOT condone, but happen to every President - are racial. Not sure what they were with all the other Presidents.