[Ilugc] Tragedy: Successful Linux developer commits suicide

  • From: siva.ilugc@xxxxxxxxx (Sivasankar Chander)
  • Date: Tue Jun 9 22:40:15 2009

Folks,

A tragic event today, following the (unrelated)
demise of Prof. Rajeev Motwani last week. A
successful Linux developer committed suicide in
Bangalore today - K.T.Ligesh, founder of LxLabs,
a Linux virtual server company apparently killed
himself after a security vulnerability was found in
his flagship app (the two events may be unrelated).
There were apparently no financial difficulties -
police say that his bank account had "crores".

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2009/06/09/lxlabs_funder_death/

The Lxlabs home page as well as the product lineup
look very impressive, even by international standards.

http://lxlabs.com/

The hypervisor manager (?) that they offer looks very
polished, at least from the specs. Impressive work,
coming from a 32-year old. Tragic event, indeed -
hits closer home than the events surrounding
Hans Reiser a few years ago.

-Siva

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