Kevin Burton has just informed me that open source software developer Greg Stein, Director of the Apache Software Foundation, was mugged and seriously injured last Friday in Mountain View. Kevin Burton has setup a donation fund for Greg to help with his recovery. What really sucks about this is that Greg was on crutches from a previous injury when he was viciously attacked, making it difficult for him to defend himself. Ben Metcalfe has written about Greg’s fund as well.
In addition to Apache, Greg has worked on many open source projects including WebDAV, Python and Subversion.
photo credit: Joi Ito
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People realize something here. It is only going to get much worse! You just wait and see what things will be like in 10 and 15 years. You tree huggers that want to be so so liberal with “Everything” allowing idiots and more and more poor people have kids that are not deciplined and out of control are allowing this criminal behavior to grow! Less and Less of the hard working class are being able to afford to have kids thus putting the balance who and what class of people have kids. Were do you think this bad behavior comes from? Its a landslide its from the poor class the immigrants that have 4 and 6 kids! at the expense of tax payers. Those Tax payers then cant even afford to have kids of there own with the burden of paying for those immigrants and section 8 people. So wise when you vote people or sadly sadly it will only get far far worse. Its pathetic when a man on crouches in a city as expensive to live in as Mt View is mugged on the street and beaten like this. 90% chance it was some gangbanging mexican kids redwood city or poor section of Mt View or asian gang or blacks from East Palo Alto . Wake up people….