Debian mourns the passing of Ian Murdock
"With a heavy heart Debian mourns the passing of Ian Murdock, stalwart proponent of Free Open Source Software, Father, Son, and the 'ian' in Debian." source: https://bits.debian.org/2015/12/mourning-ian-murdock.html Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz
Also from <http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/12/ian-murdock-father-of-debian-dead-at-42/>, he was a key figure behind Sun’s OpenSolaris, which was “taking the lesson that Linux has brought to the operating system and providing that for Solaris as well”. A lesson that Oracle simply threw away...
Reddit comments https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/3ytbmi/in_memoriam_ian_murdock/ On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 4:40 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro < ldo(a)geek-central.gen.nz> wrote:
, he was a key figure behind Sun’s OpenSolaris, which was “taking the lesson that Linux has brought to the operating system and providing
Also from < http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/12/ian-murdock-father-of-... that for Solaris as well”.
A lesson that Oracle simply threw away... _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Unsubscribe: http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug
Not sure if this is bad taste or not, but you be the judge. Best comment (in my view) on this Reg article <http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2015/12/30/ian_murdock_debian_founder/>: Dear big D Why couldn't you have taken Rupert instead?
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Danial Chittinappilly -
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Peter Reutemann