Passing of a True Hacker

Felix Gallo writes "Dan Hildebrand, one of the very clever hackers behind QNX, a nifty distributed-network unix- like operating system, and an all around positive force for good in this world, has passed away after unsuccessfully fighting cancer. As Dan was a true real-time operating system hacker, I ask Slashdot readers for a hard, deterministic 10 ms of silence in Dan's honor. I bet he'd appreciate that. Thanks for advancing the art, Dan. The good fight will continue. "