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Goodbye Message. [message #1734]

Sun, 02 March 2003 17:25

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No, not my goodbye message...this is a message that Greg Underwood, AKA "CodeWench-WS" (the person who coded the Linux Free Dedicated Server) appended to the end of the readme.txt for the newest and last release of the LFDS. You saw it here first, the readme won't be on the westwood ftp site until sometime after monday.

Appendix E - Final Thoughts
===========================

So, as many of you know Westwood Studios is officially closing their doors.
I've been with the company for about 2.5 years now, and I have to say I'm
rather sad to see it go. Not only because I loose my job, but because it's
the end of an era.

Westwood games have been some of my favorites for a long time - I played and
loved C&C when I was at University. Well before that, I played and loved many
of the games they had a hand in and I never even knew it - Eye of the Beholder,
plenty of Gold Box games, etc. About a year after I got here someone high up
started putting up framed boxes of all the games Westwood shipped. If you
were lucky enough to get a tour of the building, you no doubt saw them. I
remember spending an afternoon, shortly after the last box went up, just
walking the halls and looking at all the projects this studio has been involved
in.

It is verily a sad day but I'm glad I was able to take part, if only a little
and only at the end, in such an incredible history. I hope my contributions
are as appreciated by all of you, the fans, as much as I appreciated the
earlier works of the studio when I was among you. Somehow, I think it fitting
that one of my final acts here at Westwood is to put out a fan-driven patch for
the Renegade Linux FDS - a project that the fans demanded. You folks are the
best and I'm sorry I never got to meet even a small percentage of you. This
patch is for you, and without the support and encouragement of the folks I
list in the special thanks section I never would have been able to push myself
to get this done. The weekends I gave up for this project are innumerable,
and again it feels fitting that this last patch is being completed on my own
time, on a weekend. In the end, I'm still a fan of Westwood and Westwood
games.

Enjoy the patch, enjoy the game, and enjoy the history that was Westwood.
Don't dwell on the fact that it had to end, as all good things must, but
rather focus on the good. Remember all the great times you had while playing
our games. I know I will be.

I can think of no better way to end my career at Westwood than with one of my
favorite Douglas Addams quotes:

"So long, and thanks for all the fish."

Codewench,
aka
Greg Underwood

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