[PLUG-TALK] [PLUG] Linus Torvalds & Richard Stallman for Nobel Peace Prize

[MJang]

On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 12:40 -0800, Russell Senior wrote:
> >>>>> "Keith" == Keith Lofstrom <keithl at kl-ic.com> writes:
> 
> Keith> [...] For example, the award to the Current Occupant is not for
> Keith> the particular accomplishments of that person, but to the
> Keith> American election process.  Amid much contention, we still did
> Keith> something that would be impossible in most of the rest of the
> Keith> racist world.  
> 
> Before we get all self-congratulatory, there were cross-cultural (or
> counter-racist, or whatever you want to call them) election precedents
> well before Obama, and I'm thinking specifically of Fujimori in Peru,

As for Nobel precedents, there are a couple of leaders who were given
the Nobel prize at a similar stage in their tenures - Willy Brandt and
Mikhail Gorbachev.

As for cross-cultural precedents, there's Lula in Brazil too.

Thanks,
Mike