Re: [ilugd] [PLUG] Shocking and Sad news.

2012-12-14 Thread Amit Karpe
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 7:33 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.comwrote: FYI This is really really sad. We lost a great FOSS evangelist and a good friend. -Sudhanwa -- Forwarded message -- From: Kishore Bhargava kish...@linkaxis.com Date: Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at

Re: [ilugd] Here is the last one for Raj

2012-12-14 Thread Varad Gupta
Regret never having met him. Will now never get the chance Can ilugd put up a Wikipedia page immortalising him? I don't know enough abt him apart awe-struck and respectful references by colleagues Sent from Handheld. Kindly ignore typos if any... Regards Varad Gupta On Dec 13, 2012 11:45 PM,

[ilugd] Back to the drawing board - A requiem to a man I never knew

2012-12-14 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
Raj's was one of the first few names I came across on the net. While I am in no way a software guy, (I am more a user who prefers to be free), I used to hand around in the IRC channels and mail lists even a few years back. Raj's mails and chat on the net were one of msot helpful, useful

Re: [ilugd] Back to the drawing board - A requiem to a man I never knew

2012-12-14 Thread Anand Shankar
It has been a terrible and shocking loss to all of us. Like many on the list, I received his guidance on numerous occasions which changed my IT software vision for ever. Way back in 1995, I was struggling with my first slackware install, but for Raj, my network card would have never come up and