I hope not. The black bar has become a meaningless exercise in political posturing.<p>Edit: allow me to clarify - just having to choose whether or not someone is &quot;black bar worthy&quot; is distasteful. Ian Murdock didn&#x27;t get a black bar that I can recall, and I don&#x27;t remember seeing one since then, even though other people relevant to the community have died. Are we to expect someone to change the color of the bar every time a death in the tech community occurs, and how to we judge relevance in that regard?<p>No, it&#x27;s an arbitrary gesture that doesn&#x27;t really honor anything or anyone. It just gives people something to argue about. Why did someone get a black bar and someone else didn&#x27;t? Why was this person deserving of it, and not that person? It&#x27;s best to just remove it altogether.