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Michael David Crawford Passes Away

posted by takyon on Tuesday March 26 2019, @04:20AM   
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Anonymous Coward writes:

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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• A Loss to this Site (Score: 5, Insightful) by janrinok on Tuesday March 26 2019, @07:32AM

  by janrinok (52) on Tuesday March 26 2019, @07:32AM (#819992) Journal

  It is always sad to hear news of a friend's passing away. Although most of us never met MDC, he was a member of our community and a regular contributor. We all knew that he had problems - he himself made no secret of it - but our community will miss him. My thoughts are with his friends and family.

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