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Quiet, Sad Death of Net Pioneer (Wired)
Wired News covers
the recent death of Gnutella hacker Gene Kan. "Kan, peer-to-peer
file-sharing programmer extraordinaire, died on June 29. His professional
life revolved around developing new ways to share information easily and
quickly. Thousands of people use Gnutella to swap files, a program Kan was
instrumental in developing and promoting."
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Quiet, Sad Death of Net Pioneer (Wired) Posted Jul 10, 2002 10:24 UTC (Wed) by horen (subscriber, #2514) [Link] It's awkward, reading of someone killing himself; then I think a bit and realize that it was exactly what he wanted -- unlike dying in a traffic accident or terrorist attack -- and I move on to another article. Still, what an effing waste...
Death of author of software to distributed pirated software and music Posted Jul 11, 2002 17:28 UTC (Thu) by dananderson (guest, #905) [Link] It's sad, if true, that the guy committed suicide.However, I find it amusing to call a guy a few years out of college a "pioneer," especially if his only claim to fame is writing software to distribute pirated software and music. Others may rail how it's OK to steal software and music, but I don't buy it. The Music industry may collapse under it's own weight, but that doesn't justify stealing. Or distributing stolen goods.
Death of author of software to distributed pirated software and music Posted Jul 12, 2002 22:47 UTC (Fri) by qubes (subscriber, #2562) [Link] Note: he wasn't building software just for music "stealing" but to enable uptodate, (and maybe other update software) to use P2P features...so when Redhat 8.0 is released, you don't have to suffer though the overloaded ftpds...but get all the updates from your neibors.I was truely saddened to hear of his passing. "Pioneer" or not, we need all the smart people we can get to stick around. Qubes
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