This weekend, perusing the newsgroups and web sites I frequent, I found out that Michael Bartosh, OS X Server extraordinaire, passed away at 28 very young years of age.
Most people have no idea who Mr. Bartosh is, and I personally never met him or had the opportunity to talk to him except via few messages during my search for answers to questions on the woefully undocumented OS X Server. He was a genius when it came to esoteric NeXT and Apple server technologies, and was one of the few people on these lists that I trusted enough to be the Word. Not only did he know Open Directory, authentication, and server integration like he was born with them, he was constantly at Apple's neck in the nicest way possible, trying to get them to document, fix issues, and turn Mac OS X Server into a real enterprise-class product, instead of the near afterthought it started out as.
I could write more, but it could easily turn into another blogger plaigery wankfest, and I don't have the words to do him justice. Instead, in true form, I will link to a couple of sources. Thank you for all your help all these years, Michael. You will be missed by many people you never met, and my heart goes out to your family.
the AFP announcement: http://www.afp548.com/article.php?story=20060611204217263
John C. Welsh: http://www.bynkii.com/archives/2006/06/ah_crap.html
A picture: http://www.flickr.com/photos/x180/18889652/in/set-444799/
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