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, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 26 2019, @05:39AM (1 child)
That isn't his style. Read his many journal entries and see. Don't pour one out. Rub one out. His photo is on Facebook and on his web site, just in case you need some, uh, inspiration.
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Tuesday March 26 2019, @06:35AM
Hate to say it, but I gotta agree. Reading his posts and following his life, alcohol never seemed to be his style as much as his interest in sex and accompanying colorful descriptions. I'm sad he couldn't get help that would, well, help him.