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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? David Korn and Glenn Fowler laid off Post 302858899 by hergp on Tuesday 1st of October 2013 03:46:31 PM
Old 10-01-2013
David Korn and Glenn Fowler laid off
I just got word, that David Korn, father of the kornshell, and his co-worker Glenn Fowler were laid off by AT&T. Here is a posting by Glenn Fowler on the ksh-users mailing list (removed email addresses):

As has been pointed out several times on the AST and UWIN lists, AT&T gives very little support to OpenSouce software, which is why we have so few people involved with our rather large collection of AST software. In spite of this, ksh, nmake, vczip, UWIN and other AST tools continue to be used in several AT&T projects.

It turns out that software isn't the only thing lacking support: both dgk (AT&T fellow, 36 years of service) and gsf (AT&T fellow, 29 years of service) have been terminated, effective October 10. Our third major partner, Phong Vo (AT&T fellow, 32 years of service), left a few months ago for Google. The UWIN maintainer, Jeff Fellin, is still with AT&T and provides UWIN support for some critical operations.

Both dgk and gsf will continue to work on AST software, and might actually have more time (at least in the short run) to focus on it.

The download site and mail groups will remain within AT&T for at least the next several months. Our AT&T colleague, dr.ek, AST user and bug detector, will maintain the site. We have secured the astopen.org domain and are investigating non-AT&T hosting options, including a repository with bug tracking.

The process of change will take time; the patience of the user community will be greatly appreciated. Its quite a shock to have 3 weeks to plan personal, career, and hacking futures after working in an environment that has essentially been stable for almost 30 years. The user groups will be informed as plans solidify.

New email:

dgk *****
gsf *****

Switch over to these soon: AT&T does not forward email of former employees.

Thanks
-dgk
-gsf
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gsf-office-thumbnailer

GSF-OFFICE-THUMBNAILER(1)					       GNOME						 GSF-OFFICE-THUMBNAILER(1)

NAME

       gsf-office-thumbnailer - office files thumbnailer for the GNOME desktop

SYNOPSIS

       gsf-office-thumbnailer [OPTIONS] infile outfile

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page briefly documents the gsf-office-thumbnailer command.

       gsf-office-thumbnailer is used internally by GNOME applications such as nautilus to generate thumbnails of several types of office applica-
       tion files. While it is possible to invoke it manually, it is usually invoked automatically by nautilus.

OPTIONS

       This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with single letter options starting with a single dash  (`-')  and  longer  options
       starting with two dashes (`--').

   Main options
       -i, --input=filename
	      Name of file for which to create a thumbnail

       -o, --output=filename
	      Name of the file in which to store the thumbnail

       -s, --size=N
	      Size of thumbnail in pixels; the thumbnail will be at most N*N pixels large.

   Help options
       -?, --help
	      Display a brief usage message

LICENSE

       gsf-office-thumbnailer  is licensed under the terms of version 2.1 of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) as published by the Free
       Software Foundation. For information on this license look at the source code that came with the software or see the GNU project page
       <http://www.gnu.org/>.

AUTHOR

       gsf-office-thumbnailer's primary author is Federico Mena-Quintero <federico@novell.com>.

       The initial version of this manpage was written by J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <jdassen@debian.org>.

gsf								  August 17, 2005					 GSF-OFFICE-THUMBNAILER(1)
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