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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.
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.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 26 2019, @05:14AM (3 children)
I lost a friend to suicide. He was a nice person, a businessman, a job creator, and a person who collected pictures of 12-year-old girls naked. He got reported, lost his business, and ended up on the sex offender list. He tried to keep doing something, ending up making useless jewelry, but that was a far cry from the business of 500 people he'd built. (about $150,000,000 per year I'd guess) Useless jewelry here: http://gage20.blogspot.com/ [blogspot.com]
MDC loved tracking down people like my friend, no matter how harmless they might be. MDC couldn't bear the thought that some curious person might have naked pictures of kids, and so MDC made it his mission in life to go after such people. I wonder how many suicides MDC caused over the years. Given that, it is entirely fitting that MDC should meet his own end that way.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 26 2019, @07:40AM
MDC only tracked down people who were publicly sharing CP. He didn't break into computers.
So if 'your friend' got busted it was because he was providing CP to other people, not just holding a stash.
(Score: 4, Touché) by Gaaark on Tuesday March 26 2019, @02:49PM
So, your friend was a dirt-bag scum sucking asshole.
Why do you have a problem with MDC again?
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 26 2019, @06:40PM
Collecting pictures of naked children in published photography books by "renowned" photographers (Sally Mann, Jock Sturges) at Amazon is okay. Collecting pictures of naked children over the internet taken by (ahem) "interested amateurs" is not okay.
Yeah, that seems inconsistent to me, too. *shrug*