在solidot上看到的。
ALS病人在去世前用脚贡献了最后一个补丁
肌肉萎缩性侧索硬化症（ALS）是一种渐进和致命的神经退行性疾病，病人的肌肉会逐渐衰弱、萎缩，丧失运动能力。Adrian Hands是一位ALS病人，在去世前三天他贡献了最后一个补丁，修正了Gnome中一个有9年历史的bug。虽然，当时他已经失去了运动能力，双手残废无法使用键盘。他是用脚在一个莫尔斯码键盘模拟器上输入代码的。
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/04/10/1219215/ALS-Sufferer-Used-Legs-To-Contribute-Last-Patch
I would like to extend my thanks to the gnome team/community for a great last
moment with my dad.
Adrian Hands (my father) wrote the patch above to improve the usability of
gnome for himself and others. You see my dad was suffering from ALS and his
hands were so crippled he could no longer use a keyboard. Thus we used a Darci
usb morse code keyboard emulator to help him type. Even the morse code device
was a struggle as the sensitivity adjustment and positioning of the nice two
paddled key would fall out of whack. I rigged up a pvc cage that wrapped around
his knee and fixed remote switches to the cage so that he could use the
remaining strength in his legs to operate the Darci morse code device. He used
this last bit of body movement to write this patch.
Here is a photo of him using it:
https://picasaweb.google.com/HandsAdrian/ShotwellConnect#5549467460761802914
My father passed away yesterday. I went back through my email to find our last
correspondence (he was in India for treatment, and I live in Raleigh). I would
like to share the email with you.
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这种精神让人肃然起敬！
《电锯惊魂》中给人的教训就是要懂得珍惜现在的生活！
默哀！愿他一路走好！