Re: Goodbye to Thien-Thi Nguyen

[Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide]

lux <lx@shellcodes.org> writes:

> On Sat, 2023-09-09 at 23:55 -0400, Amin Bandali wrote:
>> We have learned with deep sadness that Thien-Thi Nguyen (ttn) died in
>> October 2022.  Thien-Thi was a hacker, artist, writer, and long-time
>> maintainer and contributor to many GNU programs as well as other free
>> software packages.  He was the GNU maintainer of the rcs, guile-sdl,
>> alive, and superopt packages, and he was working on GNU Go as well.
>> 
>> Thien-Thi especially loved GNU Emacs, GNU Taler, and GNU Go: he was
>> the author and maintainer of the xpm, gnugo, ascii-art-to-unicode,
>> and hideshow GNU Emacs packages and made substantial contributions to
>> many others such as vc, as well as to GNU Taler and its documentation.
>> 
>> We greatly miss Thien-Thi in the free software community - his death
>> is a great loss to the Free World.
>> 
> R.I.P

The news shocked me and I’ve been stumbling over what to write — and
failing. So I will just second this:

R.I.P

Thank you for making the world a better place.

Best wishes,
Arne
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