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Announcement   Announcement : So Long Fred, and thanks for all the Fish disks!
   posted by T_Bone on 28-Apr-2007 1:20:57 (6568 reads)
Last friday, Fred Fish died in his home on April 20, 2007 at the age of 54.

He began offering Fish disks by mail order from his home in 1986 at a time years before we had Aminet or internet access, and BBS's mostly ran from floppy drives. What he started evolved into probably the biggest sneakernet distribution system ever. User group meetings at the time flourished largely due to the fact that they offered Fish disks for their users to copy. He initiated Geek Gadgets as well, a Unix environment for AmigaOS and BeOS. He's done extensive work on GDB and binutils. He worked briefly at Be Inc, makers of BeOS, and Cygnus, makers of Cygwin.

His contributions to free software in general, and especialy the Amiga have shaped most of our experiences with the platform, and have earned him a place among the platform's pioneers.

So long Fred, and thanks for all the Fish disks!

The Amiga will outlive us all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Fish
http://ftp.wustl.edu/pub/aminet/misc/fish/
http://wwww.diveadx.com/
    

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Re: So Long Fred, and thanks for all the Fish disks!
Posted on 29-Apr-2007 1:47:08
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wow sad to hear.

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Re: So Long Fred, and thanks for all the Fish disks!
Posted on 29-Apr-2007 11:06:31
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a bit late but....

Condolences to the family
Good bye Fred, rest in peace, and thanks for your work


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My condolences to his family!

The Amiga community owes Fred a lot!


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Posted on 29-Apr-2007 17:22:54
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What about Fishnet ?

Hey, I like that name as well.


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Posted on 29-Apr-2007 20:48:40
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He deserves a lot of thanks from me too. May he rest in peace now.


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Posted on 29-Apr-2007 22:03:39
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Can't believe Fred Fish is dead My condolences to his family and close friends.

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NomadOfNorad 
Re: So Long Fred, and thanks for all the Fish disks!
Posted on 30-Apr-2007 1:51:03
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Well, barring a (rumored) Sinbad sort of situation, this is a great loss.

I never had any of the Fred Fish CDs (and didn't have a CD-ROM drive on my Amigas to use it in anyway), and so far as I know, never had any of the actual, official Fred Fish floppies... but I did dload alot of Fred Fish archives from BBSs, and later from the Aminet...

(edit: had a completely different post here originally. Took that out. Then came back and posted this...)

Last edited by NomadOfNorad on 30-Apr-2007 at 04:47 AM.
Last edited by NomadOfNorad on 30-Apr-2007 at 03:04 AM.


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Posted on 30-Apr-2007 4:24:46
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I've had a lot of good memories thanks to Fred Fish disks. I remember all of the fun in seeing the latest that I could get from the local AmiCUE or from local Amiga dealers. I really miss the old days.

So long Fred, it was great to have you be a big part of the Amiga World.


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Raffaele 
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I think that Fred had in his house all Amiga material for Fish CDs...

I hope that some representatives from Amiga Community could visit his relatives and ask permission to release CD again starting from Fred's collection...

For example release again all collection of Gold Fish Disks in CD package, and give Fred's family good percentages of monney on the selling of the CDs...

Else, all Freds collection of open source files, the addresses and telephone numbers of all programmers and donors of the software, all the material he never released, and Freds Amigas could be lost in vain...


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@ Sundown

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Condolences to his family, may he rest in peace.

Those that remember Fred & what he did for us in the early Amiga days are showing our age here. Fred pioneered the concept that is now Aminet, a shame it can't be changed to FredNet to honor him.


Aminet can't be changed of name...

BUT...

In front of first page of any Aminet mirror, there could be a phrase entitled to Fred Fish...

«In beloved memory of Fred Fish, who was the first Amigan to share with the Community the open resources he collected.

He will be live forever in our hearts.

The grateful Amiga Community with Love to Fred Fish,»


And here I publicly ask the maintaners of Aminet to put on front page of Any Aminet Mirror a remainder Memento to Fred Fish!


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Goodbye Fred......


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Rest in piece Fred.

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