The Passing Of An Open-Source GPU Driver Developer

[Calinou]

I sort of agree. There is no need to make a capital on the back of someone who died.

If you were Michael, would you do it if you would gain a few $/??

[susikala]

I read Phoronix since a long time, but this time is too pathetic to ignore. You are making an article about a fellow developer who unfortunalty passed away, and the very first sentence is about how we learned exciting informations (sic!), pointing not, to one, two or three, but four of your own articles. Long time Phoronix readers are already aware that you'll use any means to get as much hit as possible on any article regardless or their content, wich in majority is extremely poor for someone that call himself "journalist", but doing it in such a nasty way, without at least having the decency to focus on Oliver McFadden with the very first lines, and without feeling the need to throw us a puke of references to your own blog articles. Even the title stinks, make it sounds like you're going to tell us a tale.

And you couldnt even end with a word of support for its relatives, you know, at least by courtesy.

You are a despicable person.

I sort of agree. There is no need to make a capital on the back of someone who died.

[Serge]

Long time Phoronix readers are already aware that you'll use any means to get as much hit as possible on any article regardless or their content, wich in majority is extremely poor for someone that call himself "journalist", but doing it in such a nasty way, without at least having the decency to focus on Oliver McFadden with the very first lines, and without feeling the need to throw us a puke of references to your own blog articles.

At first I read the article the same way, but then I realized that Michael needed some way to explain that this was not current news, but him informing us of something from the past that he was not aware of until now, and that's why he began by talking about FOSDEM - because FOSDEM was the impetus for him to find out what happened to Oliver McFadden.

Even the title stinks, make it sounds like you're going to tell us a tale.

He did. See above.

[Hamish Wilson]

Just chiming in to also say RIP Oliver.

[zwastik]

I read Phoronix since a long time, but this time is too pathetic to ignore. You are making an article about a fellow developer who unfortunalty passed away, and the very first sentence is about how we learned exciting informations (sic!), pointing not, to one, two or three, but four of your own articles. Long time Phoronix readers are already aware that you'll use any means to get as much hit as possible on any article regardless or their content, wich in majority is extremely poor for someone that call himself "journalist", but doing it in such a nasty way, without at least having the decency to focus on Oliver McFadden with the very first lines, and without feeling the need to throw us a puke of references to your own blog articles. Even the title stinks, make it sounds like you're going to tell us a tale.

And you couldnt even end with a word of support for its relatives, you know, at least by courtesy.

You are a despicable person.

I think you are letting your feelings take over you, I did not perceive the article the same way you did, I just read a typical article.

[JiE3D]

...he was pointing out articles of what the guy accomplished, to allow people to realize what he has left behind. What's the point of telling readers the significance of this guy if they don't know what he did and why he's significant? Putting links to other articles is more of a convenience than a "hey lets make a profit from a dead guy". While pointing out excitement might've been unnecessary for the first sentence, at least he didn't mention fodsdem at the end. Way to make this seem a lot worse than it really is.

No, the "exciting" articles referenced in the beginning have NOTHING to do with Olivier, it serves absolutly no purpose in the subject apart trying to get some precious hits and you know it. Like I said im used to Michael doing it all day long, but on an article of that matter that is just plain disgusting.

[schmidtbag]

I read Phoronix since a long time, but this time is too pathetic to ignore. You are making an article about a fellow developer who unfortunalty passed away, and the very first sentence is about how we learned exciting informations (sic!), pointing not, to one, two or three, but four of your own articles. Long time Phoronix readers are already aware that you'll use any means to get as much hit as possible on any article regardless or their content, wich in majority is extremely poor for someone that call himself "journalist", but doing it in such a nasty way, without at least having the decency to focus on Oliver McFadden with the very first lines, and without feeling the need to throw us a puke of references to your own blog articles. Even the title stinks, make it sounds like you're going to tell us a tale.

And you couldnt even end with a word of support for its relatives, you know, at least by courtesy.

You are a despicable person.

...he was pointing out articles of what the guy accomplished, to allow people to realize what he has left behind. What's the point of telling readers the significance of this guy if they don't know what he did and why he's significant? Putting links to other articles is more of a convenience than a "hey lets make a profit from a dead guy". While pointing out excitement might've been unnecessary for the first sentence, at least he didn't mention fodsdem at the end. Way to make this seem a lot worse than it really is.

[Ericg]

RIP Oliver! Thank you for all of the hard work and long hours you put in as a developer and I hope your family is doing well and you are at peace.

[JiE3D]

Unreal

I read Phoronix since a long time, but this time is too pathetic to ignore. You are making an article about a fellow developer who unfortunalty passed away, and the very first sentence is about how we learned exciting informations (sic!), pointing not, to one, two or three, but four of your own articles. Long time Phoronix readers are already aware that you'll use any means to get as much hit as possible on any article regardless or their content, wich in majority is extremely poor for someone that call himself "journalist", but doing it in such a nasty way, without at least having the decency to focus on Oliver McFadden with the very first lines, and without feeling the need to throw us a puke of references to your own blog articles. Even the title stinks, make it sounds like you're going to tell us a tale.

And you couldnt even end with a word of support for its relatives, you know, at least by courtesy.

You are a despicable person.

[F i L]

Sad to hear. His work was interesting and appreciated.