On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 02:10:49AM +, Bruce Perens wrote:
> If you absolutely have to discuss this, contact me privately. Let's keep it
> off
> the list.
Bruce,
I trully appreciate your reservation regarding Ian's personal life. I
think he is entitled to our most deep respectful treatment.
Ian's personal life was at times at great odds with what we know of Ian as
a public person. This became known to me while Ian was running Progeny
Linux Systems. I hired Ian for that position, helped to arrange the funding
for that company, and was its chairman of the board.
I would rather preserve
I have thought the whole issue of his supposed suicide was murky. If you
ever heard/watched any of his lectures or read any of his writings
regarding the early days of Linux and Debian, he never struck me remotely
as being high strung and suicidal. His death was a complete shock to many
people.
