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Linux Journal has learned fellow journalist and long-time voice of the Linux community Robin "Roblimo" Miller has passed away. Miller was perhaps best known by the community for his roll as Editor in Chief of Open Source Technology Group, the company that owned Slashdot, SourceForge.net, freshmeat, Linux.com, NewsForge, and ThinkGeek from 2000 to 2008. He went on to write and do video interviews for FOSS Force, penned articles for several publications, and authored three books, The Online Rules of Successful Companies, Point & Click Linux!, and Point & Click OpenOffice.org, all published by Prentice Hall.
See, also: "Roblimo" on Wikipedia.
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(Score: 2) by canopic jug on Friday May 25 2018, @05:55AM
I mainly saw what he wrote and agree he wrote a lot of good stuff, but I had wondered why he seemed to be so quiet of late. I had just assumed that he was busy in other areas. I'm hard pressed to recall anything specifc he wrote, just that he wrote well and often about good topics. Now that I look around, this one was quite informative:
Microsoft's 'Men in Black' kill Florida open standards legislation [linux.com].
Joe Barr also used to write often and well too.
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