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[camrogers]

This is probably common knowledge, but after the War Alan Turing was convicted of homosexuality, stripped of his security status and never worked on a project of import again.  He committed suicide in the Fifties, by eating a poisoned apple.

Some believe this is why Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak named their company 'Apple.'

Never knew that.  I wonder if it's true.

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[ashamel.livejournal.com]

I don't know about the apple, but it's true he committed suicide. The British Government apologised for it just last year.

[blithespirit.livejournal.com]

The Turing story is even worse than that. He was CHEMICALLY CASTRATED. The British military and government basically hounded him to suicide... and he was one of the pepole who won the war for them.

It's just such a fucked story.

I blogged a couple of months back about the petition which successfully got the British PM to issue an official apology to Turing. That was a cool thing.

Never heard that Apple story before. Very interesting if it's true!