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> On Oct 13, 2:45 am, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>> > On 13-10-11 09:02, Mark S Bilk wrote:
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>> >> On Oct 12, 11:37 pm, Marti Van Lin<ml2...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>> >>> Apparently Dennis Ritchie diseased on 8 or 9 October 2011
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>> >>>https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie
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>> >>>http://tinyurl.com/3qtccu7
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>> >>> We all owe him a minute of silence
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>> >> Dennis Ritchie was the inventor of the C programming language,
>> >> and one of the original developers of Unix!
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>> >> A true hero!
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>> > Agreed, that's why I posted it here.
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> > He contributed to society a hundred times and more than
> > Steve Jobs. But since he wasn't extremely rich, the media
> > will not pay much tribute to him.
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> When I was at MIT, we were busy inventing the Internet (helped by Al
> Gore). The GNU/FSF folks were more than welcome at the school; I
> remember one day I walked into the wrong office. I noticed a book
> "Bicycling in Cuba" and a mattress on the floor so I said to myself:
> "Oh! This is Stallman's office".
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> (this was circa 1990, when the FSF+GNU were poor and unknown)
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> In any event, there were rumors that MIT was planning to kick out
> Stallman et al., so Steve Jobs called the university's president,
> telling him how important the work by Stallman and the others was for
> the high tech industry. Jobs was told that the rumors were
> unsubstantiated, and the hackers could stay as long as they need.
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> The currently can afford their own office in Boston.
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> -Ramon
Is there any verifiable account of it?
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