Andre Hedrick (libata) a voice of opensource and freedom is death by suicide.

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http://hedrick4419.blogspot.de/

Remembering Andre Hedrick

He protected us against CPRM (Content Protection for Recordable Media) DRM on hard-drives and wrote the standard IDE driver.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content...cordable_Media

He no longer carried his paranoia to save us now he rest in peace.