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Patrick Volkerding Back to Work

Posted by michael on from the stop-slacking dept.

AndreaP writes "Patrick Volkerding, the maintainer of Slackware Linux, is apparently recovering from his health problems and is back to work. From the ChangeLog of Slackware-Current: 'I'm back in California and I'm happy to let you all know that I'm feeling much better. :-) Here are a few updates so you can see that I'm trying to get back into the swing of things. Hopefully 10.1 won't be too far off ...'"

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  1. WTF by evel+aka+matt · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So, WTF happened to him? Miraculous recovery from unknown symptoms, or what? One minute he's dying, and now he's just dandy. Chicken soup? What? Did he say anywhere what he had, how it was cured, or anything?

  2. No. by aluminum_geek · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You're wrong.

    Patrick said (in his original "someone help me" email) that the plaque/toothbrush scenario was one if his theories. Since then, he has not mentioned it in any of his updates (that I could find).

    All he mentions is that he wants to thank his doctor, and he's feeling better, etc, etc.

    Personally, he always sounded like a bit of a hypochondriac prima donna, and I was anxiously waiting to be proven wrong.

  3. Re:Cancer probably by Limburgher · · Score: 4, Insightful
    At the point you make the matter public, it DOES become the publics business.

    While in principle I agree with you, think of it this way: If you come to me for advice meeting women, does that entitle me to watch the resulting sexual activity?

    Ignoring of course the issue of whether I WANT to. . .:)

    --

    You are not the customer.

  4. This just goes to show you... by eeg3 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...Projects that are centered directly around one person are a bad, bad idea. OpenBSD would suffer from this, too... specifically because Theo owns copyrights and whatnot. What happens when he quits, dies, or gives up?

    All major projects should have elected core members, and shouldn't be dependent on them.