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Re:A Requiem for Ian Murdock by hpaavola on Thursday December 31, 2015 @10:06AM (#10817814)
Just one day ago I had no idea who Ian Murdock was. He's name was not known to me even though I used to develop commercial software that shipped his creation inside. Had used his creation as my operating system for years.

So thank you Ian Murdock for helping me professionally, economically and just making my life better. And here's to all those great minds that do wonderful things to help us all out, even though most do not know you at all.

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Re:A Requiem for Ian Murdock by keithpeter on Thursday December 31, 2015 @12:09PM (#10818463)
Oddly enough, I was reading Ian Murdock's blog post about Linux history just before the holiday kicked in. I knew roughly who he was and what his contribution to Linux had been but I had not realised how much he had done since Debian.
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