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News hits too close to home. Mental illness, San Francisco Police, possible substance abuse...
..more Merry Fucking 2015 Christmas.
Debian Linux founder Ian Murdock dead at 42
Tributes pour in for open-source pioneer who had threatened to kill himself on Twitter
Debian GNU/Linux founder Ian Murdock has died. He was 42.
Murdock is best known for launching the open-source distro in 1993. Just last month, he joined the technology startup Docker in San Francisco.
On Monday afternoon, he posted a string of distressing and erratic tweets, revealing he had been arrested by police near his home in the city, and that he was accused of assaulting an officer. Murdock was also threatening to kill himself. After people reached out to him, he appeared to calm down, vowing instead to clear his name. Murdock died that evening. His Twitter account has since been disabled.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/12/30/ian_murdock_debian_founder
Tributes pour in for open-source pioneer who had threatened to kill himself on Twitter
Debian GNU/Linux founder Ian Murdock has died. He was 42.
Murdock is best known for launching the open-source distro in 1993. Just last month, he joined the technology startup Docker in San Francisco.
On Monday afternoon, he posted a string of distressing and erratic tweets, revealing he had been arrested by police near his home in the city, and that he was accused of assaulting an officer. Murdock was also threatening to kill himself. After people reached out to him, he appeared to calm down, vowing instead to clear his name. Murdock died that evening. His Twitter account has since been disabled.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/12/30/ian_murdock_debian_founder
I'm a Debian guy.
Ian had a bad encounter with police and neighbors.
Been there, done that.
Once upon a time, a galaxy far, far, away, I was a hot mess in San Francisco and Berkeley, and inexplicably, Fresno.
I survived. With scars. Mental scars, and physical scars I can point too.
My deepest darkest self, this autistic spectrum clueless angry self, sometimes protects me.
That's NOT OPTIMAL, but things could be worse.
Whatever dark hole I'm in, don't let it be yours.
My wife was pestering me today to call my doctors.
She's right. She always is.
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