RIP Andre Hedrick (Register)

The Register has an article on the life and death of Andre Hedrick, the former kernel IDE maintainer who passed away on July 13. "Today, millions of people use digital restriction management systems that lock down books, songs and music - the Amazon Kindle, the BBC iPlayer and Spotify are examples - but consumers enter into the private commercial agreement knowingly. It isn't set by default in the factory, as it might have been. The PC remains open rather than becoming an appliance. Andre was never comfortable taking the credit he really deserved for this achievement." See also this weblog page where memories are being collected.

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