From: Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti@benettiengineering.com>
To: Stefano Babic <sbabic@denx.de>,
"U-Boot@lists.denx.de" <U-Boot@lists.denx.de>
Subject: Re: Wolfgang Denk
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 18:03:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fe8a5b16-59cb-28c0-cac2-b8e40ffbc3d4@benettiengineering.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3fd650da-2c9a-689d-0771-2bd9285bd207@denx.de>
On 21/10/22 17:11, Stefano Babic wrote:
> Dear U-Boot community,
>
> it is my very sad duty to inform you that Wolfgang Denk, the father of
> U-Boot, passed away last week. We have lost a great developer and a very
> good friend.
>
> I met Wolfgang the first time quite 25 years ago, when we worked for the
> same company. I was hired as consultant for a (at the time very
> frequently used) RTOS. I had no time to introduce me, because Wolfgang
> interrupted me with : "Just install Linux !". Well, of course I did. It
> was the first good suggestion he gave me. Many others followed.
>
> Wolfgang was a pioneer and strong supporter of Open Source, in the time
> when Linux for Embedded System started its first steps. In many
> occasions he had strong discussions with customers to explain the
> advantages of Open Source, and he rejected business contracts if
> customer was going against his principles. We will miss him.
>
> Rest in peace, my friend
>
> Stefano Babic
>
I'm very sorry,
rest in peace Wolfgang Denk and thank you for what you have created.
--
Giulio Benetti
Benetti Engineering sas
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2022-10-21 15:11 ` Wolfgang Denk Stefano Babic
2022-10-21 15:36 ` Oleh Kravchenko
2022-10-21 15:37 ` Michael Nazzareno Trimarchi
2022-10-21 15:47 ` Jagan Teki
2022-10-21 16:03 ` Giulio Benetti [this message]
2022-10-21 17:00 ` Jan Kiszka
2022-10-24 0:55 ` Bin Meng
2022-10-24 1:11 ` Simon Glass
2022-10-26 15:40 ` Tom Rini
2022-10-26 23:31 ` Jaehoon Chung
2022-11-02 12:22 ` Minkyu Kang
2006-11-20 22:32 Adrian
2006-11-21 0:42 ` Steve Iribarne (GMail)
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