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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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 25 2018, @09:39AM (1 child)
would have existed if not for his early support, and I imagine his, CmdrTaco, and a few other early guys Linux usage was responsible for a fair share of early linux conversion during that period. I know that I learned all sorts of unexpected tricks thanks to either their comments, or articles that were posted over the years on slashdot, plus its various sister and competitor sites (kuro5hin for instance.)
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday May 25 2018, @11:29AM
I never met Roblimo. Exchanged messages with him a couple of times over the many years I was on Slashdot. This news made me sad, though. I wouldn't have expected, had you asked me at the beginning, to form an emotional bond at all with folks I talk to over the Internet, but I have.
I have here, also. Even the curmudgeons.
RIP Roblimo. Hope you find your way to that LUG in the sky.
Washington DC delenda est.