<div dir="ltr">Hi all,<br><br>below is a post I've made to the Freecell Solver Discussions mailing list<br>having learned about the recent death of Adrian Ettlinger, a software developer<br>whom I collaborated with in my work on free and open source software (FOSS),<br>
and who also developed and released some FOSS of his own. Adrian was a dear<br>Internet friend, and I feel like I need to share this with you.<br><br>I mentioned it in the post, but for stressing it further, you can learn more about Adrian from these<br>
resources:<br><br>* <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Ettlinger">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Ettlinger</a><br><br>* <a href="http://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/interviews/adrian-ettlinger.html">http://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/interviews/adrian-ettlinger.html</a><br>
<br>I also wrote a (true) story about my interaction with Adrian as a submission for<br>an Israeli story contest on one of the Free Software Days, which was published<br>back in 2004 :<br><br><a href="http://whatsup.org.il/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3480&mode=nested&order=0&thold=0">http://whatsup.org.il/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3480&mode=nested&order=0&thold=0</a><br>
<br>It's in Hebrew, but I'd like to translate it to English some time.<br><br>Regards,<br><br> Shlomi Fish<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Shlomi Fish</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shlomif@shlomifish.org">shlomif@shlomifish.org</a>></span><br>
Date: Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 10:07 PM<br>Subject: In Memoriam: Adrian Ettlinger (1925 - 2013)<br>To: Freecell Solving Discussions <<a href="mailto:fc-solve-discuss@yahoogroups.com">fc-solve-discuss@yahoogroups.com</a>><br>
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<p>Dear everybody,<br>
<br>
Today I learned (by a web search that gave this English Wikipedia page as the<br>
first result - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Ettlinger" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Ettlinger</a> ) that Adrian<br>
Ettlinger, whom some of you may know as a chief developer of FreeCell Pro and<br>
its included Woods-Callan-Ettlinger solver, and a general FreeCell Enthusiast,<br>
had passed away in October 2013:<br>
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* <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Ettlinger" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Ettlinger</a><br>
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Adrian’s contributions to Freecell research were far from being his only claim<br>
to fame, and he has also made some substantial contributions to non-linear video<br>
editing (see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-linear_video_editing" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-linear_video_editing</a> ) during<br>
his work as an Electrical Engineer for the CBS corporation, developed a<br>
shareware program called AniMap, which is instrumental to some researchers of<br>
geneology, had been married, and also fathered several children, and has<br>
several living grandchildren. The Wikipedia page about him has some information<br>
about his contributions to television and video editing. Most of his<br>
FreeCell-related work was done after his retirement.<br>
<br>
I was fortunate to conduct this interview with Adrian in 2003 :<br>
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<a href="http://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/interviews/adrian-ettlinger.html" target="_blank">http://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/interviews/adrian-ettlinger.html</a><br>
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We also corresponded extensively in E-mail, and I still have copies of most of<br>
his messages, and possibly may be able to share at least some of them (but I'll<br>
have to see about the various ethical, legal and moral aspects of it.). After<br>
the process of integrating Freecell Solver with FreeCell Pro was done, we<br>
discussed other fields including religion, philosophy, economics, politics, our<br>
friends and families, employment, humour, computers. and games.<br>
<br>
Adrian was almost always kind in his E-mails, and was incredibly patient with<br>
the process of getting Freecell Solver to cooperate with FreeCell Pro, until we<br>
were able to achieve that. <br>
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My last message from Adrian is dated 7 December 2012, about 10 and a half<br>
months before his death, and he was still perfectly communicative. There were<br>
several long gaps between our E-mail communications, when he didn't respond to<br>
my last message for a long time, so I didn't quite suspect that he passed away.<br>
<br>
I now feel sad and kinda want to cry but am still unable to. Anyway, if<br>
possible, you can try helping with editing the wikipedia page about<br>
him[Wikip-typo]. and I wonder if I can get some leads (E-mails/etc.) for his<br>
surviving family members to send them my condolences, and share some stories<br>
about him. I'm sorry that I didn't have a chance to meet Adrian face to face<br>
(we only corresponded via E-mail, and a little via Facebook and IRC).<br>
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Sincerely yours,<br>
<br>
Shlomi Fish<br>
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[Wikip-typo] - I already fixed a typo in the reference to the Interview I<br>
conducted with Adrian (which I’m honoured to be used as a reference in the<br>
wikipedia) of my name where it was misspelled as "Schlomi" instead of "Shlomi".<br>
( Lots of people have misspelled it this way recently for some reason. ) For<br>
reference:<br>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Adrian_Ettlinger&diff=591448634&oldid=590087343" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Adrian_Ettlinger&diff=591448634&oldid=590087343</a><br>
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Shlomi Fish <a href="http://www.shlomifish.org/" target="_blank">http://www.shlomifish.org/</a><br>
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