Thoughts on the Reiser incident
Steve Browne <[email protected]>
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The road to good programming is paved with hell. The code now in worldwide use may have sprung from a harrowing life. I am reminded of what I know of the story of Phil Katz. WHO? Maybe you remember from the days of DOS and Windows 95 a neat file compression utitlity called PKZip, which later was adopted to zip-this and zip-that and bzip and bzip2 in Linux. Phil Katz was found dead in a motel room surrounded with empty vodka bottles; he had drunk himself to death. I never looked into the details but I think the mere reason that others were copying his software was not a motivation for suicide. Then there is Al Bundy of Brooklyn, New York, who coined the term "warez". But another time; I don't want to depress you too much at one sitting. Someone should write a book... Steve Stephen B. Browne [email protected] "It's kind of fun to do the impossible." - Walt Disney _______________________________________________ NMLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.nmlug.org/mailman/listinfo/nmlug