That is a horror story on many levels: the illness, his interpretation of it, his medical care, his continuing scattershot way of getting treatment. We could all learn from it. He could well die.
Tanner, I'm glad you posted this, because F/OSS is not just technolgies, but individuals as well. (Incidentally, I think we too often forget there are individuals behind proprietary corporate technologies as well.) I have asked my brother-in-law, a GP, how dangerous swallowing/ breathing dental plaque, at the Dentist, for example, can be. I will follow up when he answers, Off-Topic, unless our community thinks such a posting here is inappropriate. Bob Shepherd --- Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know there are some Slackware users on the list. You (and other people > too), might be interested in this. It seems that the main guy behind > Slackware is seriously ill and needs some help. > > Tanner > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 13:15:55 -0600 > Subject: [linux-elitists] Pat Volkerding is ill > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > I don't read /. so I don't know if it's there yet, but Slackware's Pat > Volkerding is seriously ill. Read about it here: > http://uml.axpr.net/ > which is a mirror of the text here, which might be hard to get: > ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/PAT-NEEDS-YOUR-HELP.txt > > It's PGP-signed, so it's authentic. > > If anyone has good medical connections, please read this and see if you > can help. One thing we all can do, which I believe does some good, is > give our best wishes or prayers. > -- > Rob - /dev/rob0 > _______________________________________________ > linux-elitists > http://zgp.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-elitists > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
