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Very sad indeed.<br>
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I did not know Latif, and was saddened by this news.<br>
<br>
I did a quick search and found a page
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://slviewerdramaz.tumblr.com/page/2">http://slviewerdramaz.tumblr.com/page/2</a>) which seems to indicate
Latif is actually Edin Kadribašić.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://plus.google.com/+EdinKadribasic/posts">https://plus.google.com/+EdinKadribasic/posts</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.edin.dk/p/about-me.html">http://www.edin.dk/p/about-me.html</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.facebook.com/edin.kadribasic">https://www.facebook.com/edin.kadribasic</a><br>
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This seems to indicate he was also involved in the PHP project as
well as several other things.<br>
Not completely sure on this, maybe someone else knows better than I?<br>
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I and the rest of the OpenSim community will always owe a debt of
gratitude for his contributions.<br>
I wish his family peace and my thoughts are with them.<br>
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~Terry<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/5/2016 10:00 AM, Diva Canto wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:56DAF487.4090103@metaverseink.com" type="cite">It
is with great sadness that I inform you that one of the oldest and
most respected members of this community, Latif Kalifa, has passed
away, after a long battle with a serious health condition that
landed him in the hospital many times over the past few years.
<br>
<br>
Latif's contributions to the open source SL ecosystem were vast
and varied. He was one of the original contributors, and the main
maintainer, of libOMV, a library that embodies the LL protocol and
data structures. LibOMV lies at the heart of OpenSimulator, as
well as many SL/OpenSim bots developed by lots of people. Latif
also developed Radegast, an alternative viewer used by many,
especially people with disabilities. He also contributed to the
Singularity viewer and its offshoot, Replex. He participated in
the SL Architecture Working Group, and in many technical
discussions in the OpenSim-dev IRC chat channel. He was a vocal
advocate of free open source software.
<br>
<br>
We don't necessarily know who Latif was in real life, what he did
for a living, or who is family and loved ones are. That's one of
the consequences of being part of world-wide online communities,
where we interact only with virtual representations of real
people, often using pseudonyms. But it was clear to everyone who
interacted with him that his spirit was strong and that his heart,
wherever in the world he lived, was in the right place. Open
source software exists because of people like him.
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His code will outlive him.
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He will be missed.
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<b>Terry Ford</b><br>
DigiWorldz Grid<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://digiworldz.com">http://digiworldz.com</a></div>
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