[jag_gunawardana]

Lost for words on your diagnosis. I hope and pray, for you and your family, that you will squeeze as much out of the short time left.

I'm not lost for words on your contribution to open source, how we think about systems, and the great legacy of building blocks you've left for the rest of us to carry on building with. Your work and writing was like a sledge hammer to the way I thought about systems. After I was exposed to the ZMQ Guide and years of building systems with ZMQ, I saw the problems and their solutions in a very different way. Thank you for being that hammer - I owe you and am sad that I won't get the chance to say thank you/buy that beer in person.

I always think that as long as my children, and their children etc. live then there is a part of me that will never die. I think that if I ever produced anything that had near the impact of ZMQ, then I would include that in the list of things that told the world that I was here after I am gone.

The only question I have for you is, what made you realise that an open source approach was the way forward for your work?

All the best Pieter, and thanks for all that you will leave behind - especially the community.

[PieterH]

my first free software is from 1991. i realised the power of community gradually from 2005 when fighting software patents in europe. i refined and tested the techniques in the ffii for projects like digistan. i saw the failure of money and power in amqp. in zeromq it took years to find the right patterns. i documented much in culture and empire. sorry for the lower case, i am on my phone without erdogansk spell check.