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

[Zbigniew Koziol]

James Knott wrote:
> 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/ 
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -- 
>>>>> 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.

My daughter is 23 years old she has been mostly educated by degenerated 
Canadian system. She speaks the same nonsense.

I can only pray for these lost like you.

zb.

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