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Submission + - Rest In Peace Robin "Roblimo" Miller (1952-2018) (wikipedia.org)

rootmon writes: Our thoughts/prayers are with the family and friends of long time open source writer/journalist Robin "Roblimo" Miller who passed away this morning.

Robin "Roblimo" Miller (born October 30, 1952) was the Editor in Chief of Open Source Technology Group, the company that owned Slashdot, SourceForge.net, freshmeat, Linux.com, NewsForge, and ThinkGeek from 2000 to 2008.

Miller formerly owned Robin's Limousine, a small limo company based in Elkridge, Maryland, the origin of his online nickname. Miller is best known for his involvement with Slashdot,[1] where he was not only the corporate editorial overseer but also Interview Editor.

As a freelancer, Miller wrote for a number of print and online publications including Time.com, Baltimore City Paper, American Medical News, Innkeeping World, Machine Design, The Baltimore Sun, and Rewired.com. Miller is the author of three books: The Online Rules of Successful Companies, Point & Click Linux!, and Point & Click OpenOffice.org, all published by Prentice Hall.[citation needed] His latest[when?] ventures revolve around Internet-delivered video, including video software "tours" and tutorials on Linux.com and his recent "side" venture, Internet Video Promotion, Inc.

Miller has been a judge for the Lulu Blooker Prize and is on the online advisory board of the Online Journalism Review of the Annenberg Center for Communication at the University of Southern California.

  He is married with three grown children and three stepchildren. Robin lived in Bradenton, Florida for over a decade before recently moving to Forest Park, Georgia.

It was my privilege to have known Robin personally and have met him on several occasions including a trip to Liberty City in Miami where our LUG setup a K12LTSP (Linux Terminal Server network) computer lab for neighborhood children.

(Biographical Info Quoted in Part from Wikipedia)

Comment Re: Contrapositive Colonialism (Score 2) 304

But it was. Not all indentured servants (or even most), were criminals, but many were. They didn't all go to Australia. And they weren't cut loose when the ship docked. The idea was your trip would be financed by your future labor. And they were running out of places to put the masses of poor criminals in places like London, that had staggering economic disparity. Keep in mind some of these crimes were for things like "being in debt". You might have been given a chance between a workhouse and a ticket to the new world + indentured servitude. A lot of people died in workhouses, they were not nice places. Hence why many were willing to risk being lost at sea, or having a shitty job for 10 years, because the alternative was even more bleak.

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