A Requiem for Ian Murdock - Bradley M. Kuhn ( Brad ) ( bkuhn )
Wednesday 30 December 2015 by Bradley M. Kuhn I first met Ian Murdock gathered around a table at some bar, somewhere, after some conference in the late 1990s. Progeny Linux Systems' founding was soon to be announced, and Ian had invited a group from the Debian BoF along to hear about "something interesting"; the post-BoF meetup was actually a briefing on his plans for Progeny. Many of the details (such as which conference and where on the planet it was), I've forgotten, but I've never forgotten Ian gathering us around, bending my ear to hear in the loud bar, and getting one of my first insider scoops on something big that was about to happen in Free Software. Ian was truly famous in my world; I felt like I'd won the jackpot of meeting a rock star. More recently, I gave a keynote at DebConf this year and talked about how long I've used Debian and how much it has meant to me.Read full article from A Requiem for Ian Murdock - Bradley M. Kuhn ( Brad ) ( bkuhn )
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