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Good bye Shyam Karanat

Shyam Karanattu

This weekend I recieved the sad news that Shyam Karanat passed away.

Although we never met in person, he was a good friend. We mostly talked about Emacs Identica-mode, where he made several contributions. Actually, his patches to use url.el were key to releasing the 1.0 version so Identica-mode wouldn’t freeze Emacs anymore while waiting for a server response.

A very smart guy, who also contributed to free software in India a lot (a fact I didn’t know until now). More details on his contributions and his passing in this FSF friends email.

Its very sad news, and he will be missed by his friends and collegues.

By Gabriel Saldaña

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