Nobel Peace Prize to Linus Torvalds: A Northwest Nobel option?

[James Knott]

Zbigniew Koziol wrote:
>
>>>> Interesting read, here is a small sample of the article:
>>>>
>>>> "Former Vice President Al Gore’s visit to Portland today and 
>>>> tomorrow
>>>> has prompted some Nobel Peace Prize thoughts, and in Oregon the idea
>>>> of nominating a Northwesterner. The prospect shot around the
>>>> Portland-area Linux circles (drawing some debate as well as approval
>>>> as it did), starting with this email from Keith Lofstrom:
>>>>
>>>> "Since the Nobel Peace Prize is often given to politicians, some
>>>> disagree with the choices. But it is often given to non-politicians
>>>> who create international efforts to change the world for the better.
>>>>
>>>> "Look at the massive international efforts represented by SC09, and
>>>> realize that much of it started from the work of a 21[-year-old]
>>>> Finnish college student named after 1962 Nobel Peace Prize winner
>>>> Linus Pauling. It would be fitting to honor that international effort
>>>> by giving a Peace Prize to Linus Torvalds, perhaps in 2011 on the 20th
>>>> anniversary of the August 1991 Linux announcement, or in 2012 on the
>>>> 50th anniversary of Pauling’s award."
>>>>
>>>> http://www.ridenbaugh.com/index.php/2009/11/18/a-northwest-nobel-option/ 
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>
>>>> Michael Lauzon
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>>> Not to diminish Torvalds's work but what about Richard Stallman as a
>>> candidate for a Nobel Peace Prize, he did after all create the GPL and
>>> Free Software Foundation and has worked on the tools that form a 
>>> GNU/Linux
>>> system. The notion of a totally free operating system was his idea and
>>> that has what has "changed the world".
>>
>> Hmm, RMS and peace price.  Not sure those go together.  He has created
>> a lot of hostility too.
> And what sense makes putting Linus into the same bag as Obama, killer 
> or unborn and hater of Christianity?

Anyone who takes on religious delusion should be a candidate for the 
Nobel prize.  Religion is the cause of so much of the hatred and 
violence in this world and the sooner we're done with "God", the better.

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