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@jacquesm, may I present the other side of the man? Readers can judge for themselves what upheavals he has caused:

1. He took over the Linux-Bangalore group and renamed it to foss.in in 2005. There was also another mailing list but those have been taken down now. http://kingsly.net/kingsly/Linux/bangalore/no-blug

http://kingsly.net/kingsly/Linux/bangalore/no-blug2/

http://kingsly.net/kingsly/Linux/bangalore/no-blug3/

2. Loved to squat on opensource domains and take-over the project: http://lawgon.livejournal.com/45791.html

3. He never hesitated to complain to the bosses of those who disagreed with him: http://lawgon.livejournal.com/45791.html?thread=166367#t1663...

http://lawgon.livejournal.com/4841.html

http://lawgon.livejournal.com/7842.html

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Wow, an anonymous comment ripping someone who has just passed away with a bunch of slanderous accusations. You're a brave one.

I won't be doing any judging of the subject of this thread based on your links but I'll judge you by your actions if you don't mind. If you do something like this try being a man about it and put your name to it.

On another note, props for establishing a new low benchmark for anonymous cowardice.

You wouldn't be the author of that blog by any chance?

I don't take kindly to "There is a strange relationship between bleeding heart westerners and some breeds of Indians" or "The westerners, burdened with guilt, tend to take any report from India at face value, and the Indians tend to only respect what is endorsed by the westerners".

I don't see any evidence from your links that he spoke to anyone's managers.

Frankly, I wonder what axe you have to grind and what side of the story hasn't been told by you.

Atul's response is much classier and gives a lot more background info: http://lawgon.livejournal.com/45791.html?thread=165855#t1658...

Agreed. But the accusations are not unfounded and he practically skirted the accusation and simply put a lot of jargon and misleading references and connections which Kenneth countered again in his "non-classy" style with no capitalization. Let's call a spade a spade when needed.

I still liked the guy, I knew these allegations. I read his articles while growing up, as I've mentioned above.

> You wouldn't be the author of that blog by any chance?

The author of that blog, "Kenneth Gonsalves" is dead for almost a year.

I'm sorry to hear that. That just makes the above poster even worse, in my opinion.

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