[OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] R.I.P: Ian Murdock got murdered by USA-"Police"

[Rick Beets]

Unix-brethren,

Indeed there are "others" present, even if not all of us coders, not
all censoring contents offhand, when quite a bit may be "on topic".

I fully endorse what Apostolos said. This is a time to pull together,
and OI needs our best!

We have lost one of our number -no stranger- and it deserves
attention, in this community of people. Ian Murdock, here and in the
FOSS world at large, will be missed...

Learning my bit of *nix skills on Debian  (since 1997!), I owe him a
lot; more, as a Sun user (since 2000), later including OpenSolaris and
our trials with OpenIndiana, alive among my motley collection of retro
Sparc machines.
On the Marketing side, I once managed some projects with Sun and Sun
clients. My small outfit ended up in Sun Partner Advantage for a
while, and, always taking the FOSS road as our service principle, we
were very happy when OpenSolaris came into being. We gave Project
Indiana feedback about it.
Ironically, I never knew that Ian Murdock was in it (contact delegated
to others in my team) -or I'd have surely dropped him a line, hoping
to have a beer.

We who stay behind, go on. OpenIndiana (with apologies, being no coder
I've only contributed "in spirit", so far) surely isn't aeons behind -
if anything, the project has been spared the cumbersome learning
curves of live responses to paying customers' demands, etc.
Yet it's a struggle to keep coding new features in, fixing issues for
the old and the new, keeping up to date with tech developments, with
little support (none financially), to stay in the fight to have a
Release, one day soon.

My sincerest wish is that all be rewarded, indeed, one day soon... and
let's drink one to Ian, when it comes. :-)


Best,
~Rick



On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 12:47 PM, Apostolos Syropoulos via
openindiana-discuss <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:
> Martin,

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 1:06 PM, Мартин Бохниг <opensxce at mail.ru> wrote:
>  Dear Apostolos,
>
>
> Big thanks!
>
> %m
>
>
>
>>Среда,  6 января 2016, 12:47 UTC от Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>:
>>
>>Martin,
>>
>>Please post whatever you like! And the others: If you do not like what Martin
>>posts just delete the message. We are eons behind most OSes and we cannot afford
>>to lose people who actually contribute important things.
>>
>>
>>A.S.
>>
>>
>>----------------------
>>Apostolos Syropoulos
>>Xanthi, Greece
>>
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