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[NMLUG] Thoughts on the Reiser incident
that's why I keep myself a lame coder,
On Nov 6, 2006, at 6:16 AM, Steve Browne wrote:
> 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
> sbrowne at ix.netcom.com
> "It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
> - Walt Disney
>
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