>>>>>>Hi all,
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>>>>>>Some of you may remember Al Lukachko from the Toronto area from many years ago. I bumped into him again a few years back in Guelph. Just heard that he had passed away earlier this year. He was a great guy and always ready with a handshake, a large smile and more than willing to talk anything tech. One of the "good guys". If you were involved with the Toronto Foxpro Users Group, he helped with that (if I remember correctly). I am sure he would have been at the usual VFP conferences from the early days. I know he was trying to "phase out" of programming but not sure what he was doing the past couple years (I moved from Guelph 2.5 years ago).
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>>>>>>http://www.lifenews.ca/announcement/6272995-lukachko-alan
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>>>>>>Sorry to see him go.
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>>>>>>Albert
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>>>>>I knew him well enough. He did not help with the user group. He was friendly, but not all that good a guy.
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>>>>Strange comment about someone who passed away. I would not say it unless the person was really, really bad.
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>>>I don't cater to the idea about not saying anything bad about someone who died. I prefer to live so that no one has anything bad to say when I die.
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>>I think you have already failed to live up to your motto.
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>That's your opinion. Telling the truth about someone who's dead fits my motto. Lying about someone who's dead is another typically stupid thing people do.

Mike - I think the question many would have about what you said is why say it at all. If the guy had done something truly awful that you thought people should know about, that's one thing, but then presumably you'd have told us what that is. If he was just not a nice guy, maybe a bit of a jerk (and I never knew this guy, so I have no opinion on the matter), who needs to know that now? No one was proposing to lionize him in any way; there's no talk of giving him an award or naming one for him or anything. So I think most of us would have followed Mom's advice: "If you have nothing nice to say, say nothing."

Tamar