• From: Gregg Reynolds <greynolds@g...>
• To: 'Sebastian Rahtz' <sebastian.rahtz@c...>,cowan@l...
• Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 22:58:24 -0500

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sebastian Rahtz
> [mailto:sebastian.rahtz@c...]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 10:05 AM
> To: cowan@l...
> Cc: rgl@d...; xml-dev@l...
...
> John Cowan writes:
>  > On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Richard Lanyon wrote:
>  >
>  > > Surely Bill Gates is Torquemada?
>  >
>  > Hardly.  Whatever crimes he may have committed against software
>  > engineering standards, he has never interrogated any Jews
> or heretics
>  > under torture, or turned them over to the U.S. government
> for burning.
>
> different Torquemada. yours was real, this was in a comic
>

And anyway, how would we know?

And anyway, if you're going to pull a reality check on an allegory, would it
be unfair to ask where jews burned by the U.S. government enters into the
Torquemada story?  I can't find it in my copy.


Wheeeee!  Sorry about the bandwidth...

-gregg

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