Now this is one to ponder. This year, the Nobel Peace Prize went to Barack Obama, president of the United States. The prize has been given to both politicians and non-politicians alike, and Keith Lofstrom thinks its time to hand over the Peace Prize to a non-politician once more: Linus Torvalds.
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You got a +1 from me.
I can't count the times I'm looking for something esoteric, hit mailing lists archives of projects (including the kernel, GTK, mplayer, etc.), and out of nowhere, as someone mentioned the word Linux, or their distro's name, Stallman swoops in (like he had an automated search set up for this stuff), and does his several-sentence spiel about GNU being first, and the basis of the system, and so it should be referred to as GNU/Linux.
Ugh!
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They tried to, but he's boycotting the Prize because they sent him the details in a Word document and refused to change the name to the "GNU/Nobel Prize."
At least, that's the way he tells it. My suspicion is that the organizers saw this video and were afraid of what Stallman might do during his acceptance speech:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I25UeVXrEHQ
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Oh HELL no, I can see it now:
I'd like to just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as the Nobel Peace Prize, is in fact, GNU/Peace Prize, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Peace prize.
Let's leave the nutjob OUT of this one. Hell, I'm still waiting to find out that Stallman is actually Alan Abel in disguise.
Edited 2009-11-22 02:43 UTC
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hey why not give it to Richard Stallman
Edited 2009-11-20 17:19 UTC