Microsoft founder Bill Gates recently sent representatives to Bnei Brak to learn methods of the Gemora, the oral law which is studied at yeshivas, according to the Hebrew publication Day-to-Day. Microsoft officials visited the Achia yeshiva following Gates’s interest.
The yeshiva was offered the option of Microsoft’s investing in a computer program on Torah and the Talmud.
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great. now i’m competing with bill gates. maybe he’ll buy me out.
—Mobius · May 22nd, 2006 at 10:11 am
Next on the agenda: a Talmud that freezes up inexplicably, gets infested with viruses and spyware, and inexplicably changes fonts and formatting with no advance warning. We should report Gates’s Talmudic interest to the ADL.
—EV · May 22nd, 2006 at 10:31 am
We’ll call it… Tosafot!
—BZ · May 22nd, 2006 at 11:18 am
No more studying Talmud on Shabbos!
—Yirmiyahu · May 22nd, 2006 at 6:45 pm
Google’d do it better, and give it away as a free download to match.
—Ariel Beery · May 23rd, 2006 at 1:29 am
Yes, but then it would be perpetually in “beta”!
—cipher · May 23rd, 2006 at 5:39 am