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posted by takyon on Tuesday March 26 2019, @04:20AM   Printer-friendly
from the News dept.

Mike Crawford Is Dead, Contributed to Mac System 7.5.X and Activist

Some of you might know him on the west coast. He worked for Apple fixing/debugging System 7.5.X and attended Cal Tech. He was an activist for the mentally ill and homeless. He was openly bisexual and open about his schizoaffective disorder. His Facebook page.

I had helped him with his project Soggy Jobs which is unfinished. It was his project he needed a business model for.

He was on CNN about the taking away of tax credit from software engineers.

His website is here.

He was a member here at Hacker News.

He had serious physical illnesses that made him suffer and he took his own life.

I was an online friend of his, and I too suffer from schizoaffective disorder.

His wish was not to be forgotten to be remembered through his works. To at least have a Wikipedia article written on him or some other Wiki. Wikipedia named him non-notable about ten years ago. But if you met him, he'd always show you respect and even if he disagreed with you he was nice about it.

takyon: Here is MDC's last post on Warp Life, and Last Will And Testament. User page. Twitter.


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Tuesday March 26 2019, @05:06AM (4 children)

    by fido_dogstoyevsky (131) <axehandleNO@SPAMgmail.com> on Tuesday March 26 2019, @05:06AM (#819948)

    Shit.

    The world just got worse.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by janrinok on Tuesday March 26 2019, @09:13AM (1 child)

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday March 26 2019, @09:13AM (#820014) Journal
    I understand and agree with the sentiment of your comment, but I would rather remember MDC for what he was and what he did and the fact that he was one of us.
  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by RamiK on Tuesday March 26 2019, @04:31PM (1 child)

    by RamiK (1813) on Tuesday March 26 2019, @04:31PM (#820154)

    Seconded. MDC raised issues no one else did and made many discussions worthwhile engaging in that I'd usually just not care about.

    He would be sorely missed.

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    • (Score: 4, Funny) by Rivenaleem on Thursday March 28 2019, @01:08PM

      by Rivenaleem (3400) on Thursday March 28 2019, @01:08PM (#821280)

      When the character limit on comment titles fits just right.