Gripe Line’s Ed Foster dies, aged 59
p2pnet news view | Freedom:- We’re sorry to learn Gripe Line’s Ed Foster has died.
Posted in InfoWorld, Gripe Line is a place, “where customers of technology products can air their beefs with vendors and read about the problems and issues other customers are raising,” it said.
Now, “I’m sorry to inform you all that my dad, Ed Foster, died on Saturday of an apparent heart attack,” posts his son, Jeff, on InfoWorld, going on»»»
He was 59. He was very proud of the work he had done and the community he had built here. He was very engaged in what you all had to say, and we had many running instant message conversations about comments or emails people had sent. He was an extremely smart man, and he loved to be mentally stimulated, whether it was a good book, an interesting conversation, or one of the many comments you posted that made him look at something in a slightly different way. As you can probably tell, I’m not half the writer my dad was, and it’s very difficult for me to think of the words to say what I feel(It doesn’t help that when I get stuck on a word or phrase, I think “I know, I’ll ask my dad!”) , but I just want everybody to know that this site and the people on it meant a lot to him. I’m going to miss him. More then words could express, even if he was here to help me think of them.
Says Dan Tynan»»»
Ed did what precious few journalists these days do. He stood up for the little guy. He took on the biggest companies in the high-tech industry and gave them hell. He was tough but fair; if you got criticized, you almost certainly deserved it. Unlike today’s generation of bloggers, he understood that you need to back up your criticisms with solid research and balanced reporting. He spoke truth to power (even to the powers at Infoworld, on occasion), and as a journalist you really can’t do better than that.
His family has asked that in lieu of flowers donations be made to the Electronic Frontier Foundation in his name.
Of course. What else would Ed Foster do?
RIP
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