[zeruch]

Oops, wrong one. John Hall (often used the faux middle name "Tiberius" for reasons no one understood) was a young exec from Stanford who now is an exec...somewhere else? (It's been a while since I even had to recall the guy), not Maddog. Maddog was and is a Prince of a fellow.

[schoen]

Huh! This reminded me that I once knew that there were two different people called Jon/John Hall, and then forgot.

I've met Maddog a number of times, most often in Brazil. It's amazing how much of a celebrity he is for Brazilians; there would sometimes literally be a long line of people waiting to be photographed with him.

[zeruch]

He was/is one of the very few "open source luminaries" I actually think highly of as a person. Ted Tso, Jeremy Allison are a few others. Highly intelligent, highly thoughtful people. Working with them was a treasured experience.

[rbanffy]

> It's amazing how much of a celebrity he is for Brazilians

Are you kidding? He looks like Santa!