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Ken Starks: The Unsung Hero

Posted by xetheriel on · 5 comments
The Open Source Author; By Thomas A. Knight
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Ken Starks is, by all standards, a normal guy. He lives in the Austin, Texas area, worked hard his entire life, raised a family, and has lived a mostly good life. Around 2005, Ken was pressure washing a building 38 feet in the air, when the lift failed. He came crashing to the ground, fracturing his spine at the neck. Thus ended one career, and began a new one.

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Comments (5)

We can't have that. Can't have that at all.

OK everybody -- on 3 (to the tune of The Ballad of Jed Clampett):

Come and listen to the story of a man name Ken,

Super penguinista living down there in Austin

Then the kids he was helpin' to compute, said

We don't need Windows 'cos penguins are so cute

(Free that is, FLOSS Style, Texas PC)
Ouch... I don't know what's worse, the lyrics or imagining the people here singing them...



Nice sentiment though. Ken should be proud of his work. And Mr. Knight should be applauded for helping him...
> And Mr. Knight should be applauded for helping him...

I'm pretty sure a good subset of the readership here helps Ken with his work.
dinotrac - That's brilliant! Of course, I had a mouthful of coffee when I read it, which is now on my keyboard, so now you owe me a keyboard.

Let me put on my Captain Obvious cape: It was truly an honor to work with Ken on the Lindependence Project back in 2008 and it's remarkable what he does down in Austin. Go, Ken!

Ken is just doing regular Super Hero stuff. Nothing new, Mr. Starks does it all the time.

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