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

[Henri Doreau <henri.doreau () gmail com>]

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 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.

-- 
Henri
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