Another silent key

[Al Sten-Clanton]

I'm also very sorry to hear this.  I didn't know he was sick.

I didn't know Bill the way some who wrote here did, but I knew him 
enough by way of his help getting speakup working in Fedora 17.  And, of 
course I benefited from his work on earlier Fedora releases.  I think 
that, like me, he was something of a Stephen King fan.

Al

On 8/24/2015 11:31 AM, Kirk Reiser wrote:
> Writing to let people know that a long time friend and contributor
> Bill Acker wb2flw passed away last evening.
>
> Bill was responsible for putting our first Redhat and fedora speakup
> enabled distributions together. In more recent years he maintained the
> server where we shared dns services and provided mail and mail backup
> for many members of the community.
>
> He was an avid ham and phone freak and maintained a freeswitch which
> many people using voip still use.
>
> I am going to miss him very much. I'm sure others here will as
> well. He died of complications to his prostate cancer which he's been
> fighting for the past couple years.
>
> 73s Bill. It's been a good journey.
>
>    Kirk
>