169 points

This is unexpected, and hits really hard. I tried to get one of his drivers running with a fairly new USB wifi adapter, I made a Github issue, and he was super kind and helpful. This was only in May, it feels unreal to read this news. What a terrible loss, my deepest condolences to his family and friends.

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Larry Finger, your work has made a significant positive impact on my life and I’m sure many others. Thank you.

Now can you work on a driver to allow communication between the living and the dead?

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Can we get developers from the heavens to maintain FOSS?

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Upstream

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Bro you dont wana be bottom stream, Theres lots of daemons

Lmao

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If a random reddit post is correct and he was 84 years old, I can only hope to have the same drive and mental ability at that age. RIP.

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I still say the elderly is ripe for development. Not having an issue sitting or standing for long periods of time. Plus the constant problem solving.

There should be a way to get seniors to work with and foss keystone foss projects.

Not to mention after they start its the monthly group meeting…

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Holy cow I can’t believe it. RIP

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I hope I’m rocking that hard at 84.

My next non-alcohol bubbly drink will be in your honor, Larry.

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non-alcohol bubbly drink

Sounds like a good step towards rocking hard at 84.

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