Debian Founder, Ian murdock found dead

GigaGreg

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Thats good then.

On the other hand deaths of the great people upsets me, because they created software which went mad popular, then after few years, they are found dead in their appartments.
 
Genesis

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Exactly. It's what happened to Kloxo too. There was a large community who were using it at the time.
 
Yozora

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That's really awful! Always sad to hear when someone involved with open source projects dies...
 
GigaGreg

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Yozora said:
That's really awful! Always sad to hear when someone involved with open source projects dies...
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Indeed. This can only happen to the great people.
 
xdude

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I just don't understand how a great mind like that just decided to kill himself for a reason like that. It's just hard to believe. He has so much potential to do more great stuff. It's really a sad news.
 
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Old post; but it's still very sad when iconic leaders of large opensource project dies. We definetly have to do something with freezeng people or cloning them :) To save the best minds, who knows...
 
Genesis

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sxiii said:
Old post; but it's still very sad when iconic leaders of large opensource project dies. We definetly have to do something with freezeng people or cloning them :) To save the best minds, who knows...
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I don't think anyone ever really dies. Like we all belong to humanity and all of our good and not so good creations get passed on and improved on as well. Also very often we find lateral creations, like a famous scientist discovering the same thing in Russia as someone in the UK may have. The only great value that the person who passed on has is what we, the rest of humanity bestow on the person. Part where I definitely agree though is that we should make sure humanity survives, and we probably need to do something about the world we live in to make sure it will survive humanity.
 
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@Genesis great point on this.

So after every free software development dies he will appear in free software heaven where there are a lot of penguins and every task is already crontabbed and automated? =)

On ideas about similar research in different countries at the same point, that gives us the idea of that there are still *a lot* of things we don't understand...

We definetly has to work more on saving lifes (lives?) of humanity and people rather then developing a new types of weapons or new ways of becoming a more powerfull corruptioner... I really do believe that with work of good guys like Ian the moment of developing a good stuff is coming to the world; and soon we will see more of good and useful than others.

Thanks for interesting discussion BTW.
 
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