[Foundation-l] [Wmfall] Fwd: Very sad news

[Ryan Kaldari]

His en.wiki article is pretty lackluster:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_S._Hart
and the other language versions don't look any better.

Anyone want to help improve them?

Ryan Kaldari

On 9/8/11 1:10 PM, Asaf Bartov wrote:
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> Date: Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 5:27 PM
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> Oh no!
>
> He was a true visionary and remains a personal hero of mine.  I 
> admired his work so much, I created a Hebrew equivalent to Project 
> Gutenberg back in 1999.
>
> I never got to meet him, and had been hoping to get a chance to, now 
> that I live in the US.  Alas.
>
> I had just been telling one of the WMF storytellers, in an interview, 
> about a formative experience in my life, when a friend came over, back 
> in 1992/1993, with a CD-ROM containing more than 500 classic works 
> including translations (Shakespeare, Plato, Confucius, Voltaire, you 
> name it), and got me forever hooked on the idea of free and open 
> digital content.
>
> I'll never forget Michael Hart.
>
>    Asaf
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> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 4:52 PM, emijrp <emijrp at gmail.com 
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>     Michael S. Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, has died
>     http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Michael_S._Hart
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