In <1912514778140765.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu>, on
12/24/2013
at 03:01 PM, Paul Gilmartin said:
>http://boingboing.net/2013/12/24/queen-elizabeth-pardons-turing.html
>In my view, the Queen should have pardoned every man and woman
>persecuted under the cruel and unjust law that
From: "John Gilmore"
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2013 5:05:06 PM
Subject: Re: Turing's belated pardon
>that the Turing pardon establishes that a sufficiently valuable individual
>should be
above the law which applies to everyone else, is a
. . . [that the law in question] was wrong-headed.
John Gilmore
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The occasion of Turing's pardon was certain to be used by people on
every side of the issues raised by his prosecution to ride their own
horses into the fray, arguing that something else or something more
should have been done.
That said, the view attributed to Andrew Hodges, that the Turing
pard
On Tue, 24 Dec 2013 14:03:14 -0500, John Gilmore wrote:
>From today's New York Times:
>
>"Alan Turing, the British mathematician regarded as one of the central
>figures in the development of the computer, received a formal pardon
>from Queen Elizabeth II on Monday for his conviction in 1952 on
>ch
>From today's New York Times:
"Alan Turing, the British mathematician regarded as one of the central
figures in the development of the computer, received a formal pardon
from Queen Elizabeth II on Monday for his conviction in 1952 on
charges of homosexuality, at the time a criminal offense in Brit
