Tim Wescott wrote: > But then Bill Gates will try to buy Sweden. Nah, Microsoft will just announce they have a Scandinavian country 'under development', there by causing people to cease considering current Scandinavian countries as viable.
> > > On Wed, November 18, 2009 9:08 am, Keith Lofstrom wrote: >> 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 21yo 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. >> >> Linux is one of the largest cooperative international efforts ever >> undertaken. It inspired Ubuntu, One Laptop Per Child, and many >> other global projects. Linux conquered the supercomputer space, >> the server space, the embedded computer space - by peaceful means! >> Linux helped sequence the human genome, helps protect the world >> computer infrastructure from viral attack, and is now the pathway >> for millions to learn computer programming and participate in new >> international efforts. >> >> The 2007 Nobel Peace Prize recipient (a politician some disagree >> with, please disagree in a different thread, thanks) is giving >> the keynote to SC09 as I write this. Meaning that we are all >> three handshakes away from the people that decide on future Peace >> Prizes. Perhaps it is time to launch some messages through our >> connections and see what makes it to the committee meetings in Oslo. >> >> According to the list on Wikipedia, the five people to convince are >> Thorbjørn Jagland (chair), Kaci Kullmann Five (deputy chair), Sissel >> Rønbeck, Inger-Marie Ytterhorn, and Ågot Valle. We can start by >> sending them Norsk language Ubuntu disks. >> >> While I imagine Linus Torvalds would be embarrassed by the attention, >> it would sure make his parents happy. And it would mean one less >> Peace Prize for a politician. >> >> Keith >> >> -- >> Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com Voice (503)-520-1993 >> KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" >> Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs >> _______________________________________________ >> PLUG mailing list >> PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> > > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug