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#26
October 14th, 2011, 21:31
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http://bsdnews.net/index.php/2011/10..._campaign=feed
Quoting the last paragraph of the article: Quote:
Last edited by jrm; October 14th, 2011 at 21:38. 
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October 15th, 2011, 09:37
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RIP, a good man and great engineer.
I remember i had sent him an email some 10 years back, just a hello, and the guy answered. A great person, without whom, nothing of the computing as we know it would be the same today.
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#32
October 16th, 2011, 10:27
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RE: Honor release of 9.x:
This has my full support, but it leaves me sad that such things are always done when the one to be honored is no longer around to notice it. 
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October 17th, 2011, 23:19
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This has my full support also.
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#37
October 19th, 2011, 13:23
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I'm disappointed the others "big ones" of computer science.
After few hours of the death of Steve Jobs, Google put a tribute for him on the main page. But nothing for DR. I'm OK with the fact that medias are not so concerned, but in the industry we have not so much mobilization. 
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#38
October 19th, 2011, 20:39
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I was disappointed of the same thing.
It's really a shame considering the importance of dmr's work for everyone in the industry, and more specifically for companies such as Google that are using Unix-like systems on virtually all their machines.
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#39
October 20th, 2011, 04:04
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I'll tell you my opinion. I think that all the major BSD's (FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and DragonFLY) should honor Dennis in their next releases. At least use techies would appreciate it. It might even make Slashdot and then the major players might honor Dennis for his impact in the computing industry today. I am really surprised that Apple and IBM has not already put out some kind of press release. I not surprised that Microsoft hasn't, they think that they are the history of the the modern computing industry.
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#40
October 21st, 2011, 02:13
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It's good idea to dedicated 9.x to him.
R.I.P dmr
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#41
October 21st, 2011, 12:54
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Dennis, whom I did not know personally but who made the impression of being one who convinced with arguments, was IMHO no one for PR. Best let that remain so. We know that IBMs and Apples' bizz is based on Unix, and they did not toss the least little salute to him. Shame on them.
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#43
October 21st, 2011, 14:37
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My condolences to Mr. Ritchie!
While supporting to dedicate future versions of OSes to Mr. Ritchie (whom I wrote some 20 years back to receive a very nice reply), I am also thinking in line of producing a comprehensive writing on the human side of Mr. Ritchie. So if there is anyone who has non-personal emails from him with some quotable quote, I would like to hear from them. Please PM me. Thanks!
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#44
October 21st, 2011, 16:37
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Sincere thanks to dmr for inventing, building, and evangelizing a foundation that the rest of us rely on today.
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#46
October 24th, 2011, 13:26
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I strongly encourage dedicating the whole 9 series to Mr. Ritchie.
I don't know if this has already been decided or not, if not start a poll and you will see that all the people want this too.
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#47
October 30th, 2011, 17:22
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Some comments from Tim O'Reilly about Dennis Ritchie: http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/10/den...tchie-day.html
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#48
October 30th, 2011, 18:18
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+1 from me too!
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#49
October 30th, 2011, 20:41
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