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From: "»Q«" <boxcars@×××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Uwe Thiem
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:10:19
Message-Id: 20080714175412.0697e051@bellgrove.remarqs.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Uwe Thiem by Alan McKinnon
1 On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:53:35 +0200
2 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
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4 > It's a sad day for me today. Uwe Thiem, who has been on this list
5 > longer than I have, passed away on Friday. My friend Alastair put up
6 > a little tribute here:
7 >
8 > http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=2574
9 >
10 > What that page doesn't say is how much Uwe loved gentoo. A long-time
11 > subscriber around here, his posts must number in the 100s if not
12 > 1000s. I'm gonna miss him, even though he lived only 1000km away (a
13 > trivial distance in Africa) I never did get to collect that pitcher
14 > of Namibia's finest he owed me. I guess now I never will.
15
16 I'm saddened to read this. I've benefited greatly from his posts here
17 as well as his work with KDE, as have a lot of others.
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