Re: Ange Gutek (was: Re: [NSE] http-slowloris)

[Brendan Coles <bcoles () gmail com>]

Another man down. The industry, as a whole, will miss you Ange.

May you be remembered for more than your multiple additions to various
change logs.

Rest in peace.



On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 8:40 AM, Luis MartinGarcia. <luis.mgarc () gmail com>wrote:

> On 11/05/2013 10:12 AM, Henri Doreau wrote:
> > 2013/11/5 Fyodor <fyodor () nmap org>:
> > > On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 03:59:16PM +0200, Ange Gutek wrote:
> > >
> > > You don't know how happy I am that you could achieve this work I've
> started
> > > > many monthes ago ! I had this project at heart but this was maybe too
> big a
> > > > piece of meat for my skills. It needed someone like you to relay on
> this
> > > > project and I really want to thank you for this achievement.
> > > >
> > > > As some of you may have noticed (or not...) I am rather inactive
> since...
> > > > Well, a long time now. There are some battles we can't win in this
> life. I
> > > > won't develop this private point but I just wanted to say that those
> simple
> > > > things like a project finaly led to its terms, can bring someone,
> > > > somewhere, some shine and courage even if you did not imagine that.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks and congrats to you, Aleksandar, and to all of you Nmap devs.
> > > > Ange Gutek
> > >
> > > Hi everyone.  I'm rather devastated to report that the personal battle
> Ange
> > > references above was with pancreatic cancer and he died barely two
> months
> > > after writing it (on September 25, 2012).  He was only 36 years old His
> most popular scripts are probably ftp-anon and finger, which run
> > > by default.  Ange was always extremely helpful on this mailing list,
> even
> > > to newbies asking "dumb questions".  He was quick to volunteer for even
> > > thankless tasks like manually filtering out spam from this mailing list
> > > when it got past the automated filters.  He did that for years. and is
> > > survived by his 16-year-old daughter, Valentina.  He was born and grew
> up
> > > in Lubin, a small town in western Poland.  His mother was French and he
> > > later moved to France and joined the army as an electronic warfare
> > > specialist. It was in France that he met his wife and had his only
> child.
> > > Ange joined the Nmap community in 2005 by writing a French manual for
> Nmap.
> > >  Later he formed a team to translate our official documentation.  He
> then
> > > turned to programming and was one of the first to embrace our Nmap
> > > Scripting Engine.  He authored or co-authored 10 of the scripts that we
> > > still have today.  Ange may be gone, but millions of people still use
> his
> > > work.  His most popular scripts are probably ftp-anon and finger, which
> run
> > > by default.  Ange was always extremely helpful on this mailing list,
> even
> > > to newbies asking "dumb questions".  He was quick to volunteer for even
> > > thankless tasks like manually filtering out spam from this mailing list
> > > when it got past the automated filters.  He did that for years.
> > >
> > > While Gutek's passing is a tragedy, I'm really glad that his last
> thread on
> > > this list was such a beautiful collaboration. It should read from the
> > > bottom of the page up at http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2012/q3/204.
> > >
> > > Rest in peace, Ange Gutek!
> > > Fyodor
> > This is terrible. I've been working with Ange, both on and off-list
> > and it was always a pleasure. I especially won't forget his
> > communicable humor and motivation. My thoughts go to his family and
> > friends.
> >
> > Que la terre lui soit légère.
>
>
> Wow. I am really sad to hear this. Rest in peace, Ange, and thank you
> for all you did for the Nmap project.
>
> Regards,
>
> Luis MartinGarcia.
>
>
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