Just read a link on WHT to this article on India Times — Tecie hangs himself in HSR Layout:

On Monday morning, software company owner K T Ligesh, 32, was found hanging in his house.

He was also deeply upset his company, Lx Labs, in HSR Layout, 6th Sector, had recently lost a project to another company…

Any loss of life is sad. This guy built HyperVM — the virtualization control panel for both OpenVZ and Xen — and most importantly many low end box providers, i.e. those that have been listed under this blog, are using his software (as it costs them only 50 cents/VPS I heard, comparing to many times more Parallels charge for Virtuozzo). That basically puts HyperVM in limbo — which means there will actually have big impact on budget VPS providers. Who will take control of the source code? Or is there an alternative?

My condolences to his family.