ALS Sufferer Used Legs To Contribute Last Patch 222
krkhan writes "This is a little old, but seeing as it didn't make it onto Slashdot at the time, I think it deserves a headline now. Adrian Hands was suffering from ALS and had lost motor skills when he used his legs to type in Morse code and fix a 9-year-old bug in Gnome. The patch was submitted three days before he passed away."
Mr. Hands (Score:5, Funny)
not surprising (Score:2, Funny)
... the ticket was open for 9 years and the only person who managed to do it was someone who could barely move to even press the keys required to type up the patch.
That's why it took so long.
Re:Deeply touching (Score:1, Funny)
I just can't post a goatse link in this post.... Don't have words to describe it.
It is touching that this man was able to carry on with things that were important to him despite the crippling effects of ALS. It seems that even near the end of his fight, he took joy from maintaining some normalcy in his life. He really wanted the world to treat him just the same as if he never had the disease - as a man with something positive to add (and the open source model helped make this possible). If it hadn't been for his son, we never would have known of his condition. I don't think Adrian Hands wanted special treatment or consideration from others. Your concerns are admirable, but I think if Mr. Hands were still alive, he wouldn't want to be coddled with kid gloves just because of what he was going through. So go ahead and post your goatse link, just like you would on any other thread. In a perverse way, he would have wanted you to.
Won't last long (Score:3, Funny)
The patch was reverted in Gnome 3 because someone found it useful.
Re:Mr. Hands (Score:4, Funny)
And the GNOME logo is a foot...
Re:foot paddles? (Score:4, Funny)
It only writes dot dash dash dot.
Re:I don't know what to think (Score:1, Funny)