Skip navigation.

Mark Finlay passes away

GNOME
GNOME

Mark Finlay passed away peacefully at home on Friday 9th January 2004.
Mark was the driving force behind the creation of the GNOME Users Board, where he helped numerous people learn to use GNOME. He was also a contributor to Rhythmbox, Gossip and numerous other GNOME projects. To quote Jeff Waugh "Mark Finlay was young, eager, furiously energetic and just heading into university - where I'm sure he would have blossomed into a great GNOME and Free Software hacker."

Re: Mark Finlay passes away

Mark had cancer and most certainly died as a result of that. He was very young (freshman in college, I believe), so I don't think being out of a job was too much concern for him. I was always shocked how active he seemed to stay given how debilitating chemotherapy can be.