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Article: 13941 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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From: david.lane@turner.com (David Lane)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: A Letter to the Kermit Community
Date: 6 Dec 2002 10:07:40 -0800
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jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Jeffrey Altman) wrote in message news:<ascn99$pl1$1@newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu>...
> 1 December 2002:
>
> Today marks the end of a significant period in my life. For the last
> eight years I have been privileged to work on and support Kermit as my
> career. I began working for Columbia University after nearly seven
> years as a Kermit user and eventually as primary developer of OS/2
> C-Kermit which became the basis for Kermit 95 on Windows 95/98/ME
> and Windows NT4/2000/XP.
Ouch. I remember several occasions when you responded to my questions
within *minutes* while I was working on C-Kermit 7 for VOS, oh these
many years ago. Your active involvement will be sorely missed.
[Snip]
> I tried to look back and summarize all of the features that were added
> to Kermit in the last eight years and I became overwhelmed. There
> were [a huge number].
[snip, including list of much non-Kermit work]
> Last but not least I want to say thank you to Frank da Cruz, Max
> Evarts, Christine Gianone, everyone I've worked with at Columbia
> University; and all of the wonderful users that have supported Kermit
> over the years most notably: Peter Runestig, Mark Zinzow, Kent Martin,
> Arthur Marsh, Perry Wolfe, Robert Strickler, Greg Belenger, Clarence
> Dold, Thomas Dickey, Jim Schneider, Vincent Fatica, Gene Alexander,
> and everyone else whose name I can't pull off the top of my head.
> Without you Kermit would not be any fun at all.
And as now "just a user," I thank all of those other users and you.
You and Frank made the short time I spent coding on Kermit enjoyable,
and worthwhile, by removing the frustration factor and being supportive.
Indeed as others have suggested, it's time for the rest of us to pitch
in to support what is an *amazing* product. Others have listed good
ways to do this such as purchasing, patches, and promotion.
As I think back, I know I have gotten far, far more out of the Kermit
project than I have given back, for which I'm embarrassed. Seems to me
that the K95 package would make a nice Christmas gift :-) Purchase and
promotion in one!
> Jeffrey Altman * Volunteer Developer Kermit 95 2.1 GUI available now!!!
> The Kermit Project @ Columbia University SSH, Secure Telnet, Secure FTP, HTTP
> http://www.kermit-project.org/ Secured with MIT Kerberos, SRP, and
> kermit-support@columbia.edu OpenSSL.
--
David Lane (late of Stratus Computer) lane at columbia dot edu
Lead Software Engineer, Enterprise Systems And my guest account is
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. still there!
An AOL Time Warner company. <-- they make me say that.