Ed Yourdon has a long, thoughtful posting about Jimmy Wales’ keynote, proposing him for a Nobel Peace Prize, not entirely jokingly. (He suggests putting him on a stamp as an alternative.)

I think Wikipedia is important enough that the suggestion is only somewhat absurd.We need one more milestone before we take the idea seriously. Maybe international editions of Wikipedia will get together and try to work out their differences. Hell, if they could even agree on how to draw the maps, Jimmy should get the prize.

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