In Memoriam René Sommer

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91 points·jacquesm··11 comments

Jacques, I never took you for a story-teller but that was humane and very touching. May Mr. Sommer rest in blissful peace, my thoughts and positive energies go to his friends and family.

It's hard to do the man justice, only a personal meeting would have done that.

This is the best I could do to revive a sense of the sort of person he was.

I've met a lot of people over the last 15 years, very few have made such a lasting impression based on so little actual contact. As someone else already touched on in this thread he must have left a trail behind him of such events and I don't doubt it for one second.

I'll never look at my Logitech mice the same way again. Thanks for sharing such a nice story.

Extrapolating from this little story, René Sommer probably touched many souls along his life's journey. This, in my opinion is as important as his contributions to the computer mouse. Thanks for the nice story. Rest in peace René.

Glance at my mouse and, yes, its a Logitech. Thank you for this story.

I tip my little blue wireless Logitech mouse to Rene, and to you Jacques. Thank you.

We often get so immersed in detail that we tend to forget that it's not about the ones and zeros. It's all about other people. Thanks for the reminder, Jacques. RIP Rene.

This is just a beautiful obituary. Thank you.

A well told story about great people. And also a refreshing break to have people who know about Engelbart rather than trying to locate all UI design on a certain infinite loop in Cupertino.

that's a wonderful story!

Quite a guy.

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