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c0lo [soylentnews.org] writes:

(message to editors: oh, hey guys. You would know where the humor section is, wouldn't you?)

After more than 35 years [wikipedia.org] during which nobody seems to know about the fate of the Death Start architect responsible with the vents design, recently an open letter [geektyrant.com] (which seems to have been written only weeks after the event) surfaced to offer an insight on both the engineering challenges as well as organizational challenges a technical minded person faces while working for a narrow-minded Empire.

The letter also raises some interesting points on potential in-fights within the upper management circles and possibly an early whistle-blowing attempt, force-choked instead of being protected and followed up; the allegations may well be the reason for which we got to read this latter so late and why nobody seems to know what happened with an otherwise pretty competent battle-station engineer and architect.

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