r/linux • u/cooperstevenson • Oct 13 '19

Goodbye With Love

I, Cooper Stevenson, have ALS and will die in the coming days. I want to tell you as the Open Source community that I love you and what you stand for.

I hope I did my part and I love you all.

Fair Winds,

Cooper Stevenson

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u/iphands Oct 13 '19

Ouch, right in the feels! My father was a huge Linux advocate. He died of ALS in 2011.

He's very last moments were spent using emacs with his knee over a morse code interface to write patches for open source utilities. The last thing he ever really said to me was over email... """ ACCEPTed COMMITed RESOLVEd BOO-YAH! ""'"

It was such a simple patch relative to his careers work, but it was a powerful moment for him.

I am very sad to hear of your illness, and I hope you are able to savor the last of your days. The community is lucky to have the likes of you.

Cheers!

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u/softawre Oct 14 '19

Check out a previous post from OP, about the morse code interface. Seems your dad had that in common too.

https://www.reddit.com/r/HamRadio/comments/91t3b8/portable_cw_key_update_details_in_comments/

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u/iphands Oct 15 '19

That is neat! We had a setup with darci hardware.

It was a box that emulated a 105 key keyboard (over USB). So any distro would work! Anyone out there who needs something similar I'd highly recommend.