Public Software Fund's First Project

Russ Nelson writes "The Public Software Fund's first project has been funded for two months worth of development. Tom Jennings (of Fidonet fame) will be writing software to do peer-to-peer file sharing of free software RPM packages, improving the existing free software packages up2date, /current/, and BitTorrent. This will keep new distro releases from being slashdotted."

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Peer-to-peer pioneer kills self

[corebreech]

Story I submitted that got rejected follows. Yeah, it's off-topic. Bite me.

The New York Times tells us (after we register for free) that Gnutella developer Gene Kan has committed suicide. Let's see, he was young (25) and just over a year ago saw the company he started bought by Sun Microsystems. It would be wrong to jump to conclusions here. It would also be wrong to not start asking questions.

Re:Peer-to-peer pioneer kills self

[ceejayoz]

Asking questions? About what? Suicide is, unfortunately, not an unusual occurance. What, do you think RIAA had him assassinated? They may be one bastard of an organization, but killing people is pretty damned far-fetched.

Re:Peer-to-peer pioneer kills self

[Cryptnotic]

This is Funny(+1) if you've seen Office Space. On the other hand, it is definately Offtopic(-1). But it is definately NOT a Troll(-1).

Re:CNN has story on this as well (with pic)

[CProgrammer98]

So does Gnutella but they didn't mentioned he shot himself.

Very Very sad.

Why so many offtopic mods?

[shepd]

Some of the more inquisitive than offensive posts have clearly been modded offtopic by someone who can't stomach the slightest questioning into someone's unusual death.

Why is that? I find that just as insulting as some of the comments desgined to be mean-spirited.