Bill was my anchor when first I started using Linux so many years hence. Helping people get their Linux legs under them was an abiding passion for him, but it wasn't his only passion. Because I was blessed to call him my friend, I know his passion for life was all embracing--for his wife, his friends, his dogs, and for justice in the world. Bill will be sorely missed and not just personally. His absence will be soon evident in the many systems he helped maintain for many of us individually--and for the community at large. Janina Kirk Reiser writes: > Writing to let people know that a long time friend and contributor > Bill Acker wb2flw passed away last evening. > > Bill was responsible for putting our first Redhat and fedora speakup > enabled distributions together. In more recent years he maintained the > server where we shared dns services and provided mail and mail backup > for many members of the community. > > He was an avid ham and phone freak and maintained a freeswitch which > many people using voip still use. > > I am going to miss him very much. I'm sure others here will as > well. He died of complications to his prostate cancer which he's been > fighting for the past couple years. > > 73s Bill. It's been a good journey. > > Kirk > > -- > Well that's it then, colour me gone! > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:janina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Email: janina@xxxxxxxxxxx Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Protocols & Formats http://www.w3.org/wai/pf _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
