Linus Torvalds For Nobel Peace Prize? 541
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?
He deserves it (Score:5, Funny)
I come from 2051, in a timeline where Linux didn't exist. You don't want to hear about the Microsoft vs Apple netwar.
Why not? (Score:5, Funny)
Well... (Score:5, Funny)
I can't say he is less worthy than Obama. Obama's biggest claim to fame is that he is not George Bush. Linus isn't George Bush either, so I guess his qualifications are in order.
Sure, why not? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Well he's at least done more than Obama (Score:5, Funny)
Linus didn't start a nuclear war with Iran either.
Re:Why not? (Score:1, Funny)
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation? (Score:3, Funny)
It strikes me that a lot of good is being done by this body. Plus there's more to come. So it strikes me that Bill might be in line first, or maybe a shared one with Bill, Linus and Tim Berners-Lee or something.
Re:That's GNU/Linux, you insensitive clod! (Score:5, Funny)
LKML (Score:2, Funny)
Peace prize? They plainly haven't been reading the LKML at the Nobel Institute...
Re:List his peace initiatives... (Score:5, Funny)
Since Obama got one for not being George W. Bush, Linus should get one for not being Theo de Raadt.
Re:That's GNU/Linux, you insensitive clod! (Score:5, Funny)
...he would refuse it anyway, on the grounds that it wasn't called the "GNU/Nobel Peace Prize".
Re:Well he's at least done more than Obama (Score:5, Funny)
Linus didn't start a nuclear war with Iran either
...yet.
Proof that Linux does NOT promote peace... (Score:5, Funny)
run away! run away!
Re:Well... (Score:5, Funny)
Linus has though, fueled many thousands of flame-wars with his product.
Obama just fuels just one Afgan war.
Re:He deserves it (Score:4, Funny)
Yes, it was terrible, all those Windows machines loaded with malware, all trying and failing to attack anything non-Microsoft, until Apple ended it by buying what was left of Microsoft in 2018 in an all-stock deal of 100 Microsoft shares for 1 Apple share, plus the lint in Steve Jobs' bellybutton.
Now people's Windows machines work perfectly. Microsoft Windows - a product of Apple, Inc.
Re:Proof that Linux does NOT promote peace... (Score:5, Funny)
No, Ubuntu is Debian de-gimped. Pay attention.
Re:Well he's at least done more than Obama (Score:5, Funny)
Technically true, but you're forgetting Linus' herring genocide of 1997.
Re:List his peace initiatives... (Score:3, Funny)
And we could give one to Hans Reiser for not being O.J. Simpson. Oh, wait a sec ...
How about giving it to both RMS and Linus?
Or for the lulz, Stallman and Palin. Can you imagine the two of them in the same room? The improbability is SO high that the universe might finally have to hork up a Higgs Bosun.
Re:He deserves it (Score:5, Funny)
Now people's Windows machines work perfectly. Microsoft Windows - a product of Apple, Inc.
...but they now cost 1000x more than they should and they only do what robot warlord Steve Jobs thinks you should be able to do.
Re:List his peace initiatives... (Score:2, Funny)
And we could give one to Hans Reiser for not being O.J. Simpson. Oh, wait a sec ...
How about giving it to both RMS and Linus?
Or for the lulz, Stallman and Palin. Can you imagine the two of them in the same room? The improbability is SO high that the universe might finally have to hork up a Higgs Bosun.
I hear that they were going to give one to RMS but he won't delouse his beard until they come up with a Free as in Freedom shampoo that he can build himself.
Re:Apple and Parallels Desktop (Score:4, Funny)
Death Star (Score:4, Funny)
...but they now cost 1000x more than they should and they only do what robot warlord Steve Jobs thinks you should be able to do.
That is.... until the building of the great and powerful Death psyStar