Re: Nobel Prize for Stallman?

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From: Zdzislaw Meglicki
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1991 03:33

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In article <882@crl.LABS.TEK.COM>, markh@squirrel.tek.com (Mark C. Henderson) writes:
|> In article <29397@cs.yale.edu> horne-scott@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne) writes:
|> >
|> >There isn't one.  (Nor is there one in mathematics.  You all know the
|> >story [read:  rumour]....)  But how about a Nobel Peace Prize?
|> 
|> So what has RMS done to warrent a Nobel Peace Prize. I must not be aware
|> of some of his accomplishments.

He prevented numerous law suits and gang wars by giving the stuff
away for free. I'm not sure that this would qualify RMS for Nobel
Peace Prize, but what about sainthood...?
-- 
   Gustav Meglicki, gustav@arp.anu.edu.au,
   Automated Reasoning Project, RSSS, and Plasma Theory Group, RSPhysS,
   The Australian National University, G.P.O. Box 4, Canberra, A.C.T., 2601, 
   Australia, fax: (Australia)-6-249-0747, tel: (Australia)-6-249-0158

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From: gustav@arp.anu.edu.au (Zdzislaw Meglicki)
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Subject: Re: Nobel Prize for Stallman?
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