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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: 4, Interesting) by darkfeline on Tuesday March 26 2019, @07:39AM (1 child)

    by darkfeline (1030) on Tuesday March 26 2019, @07:39AM (#819995) Homepage

    I'm not glad he's dead, but hopefully he's free from his demons, such as they may be.

    In the spirit of actually reading the article, I see he has bequeathed a bunch of stuff to SN:

    I give, devise and Bequeath to SOYLENTNEWS PBC, a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation, the Copyrights to each file, including but not limited to Text, Digital or Silver Halide Firm or Paper Image, Word Processor, Spreadsheet that any one or more of:

    I, Michael David Crawford, an individual
    Soggy Wizards doing business as "Portland Custom Software Development, my Washington State Sole Proprietorship
    GoingWare Inc., a Delaware Corporation
    Dulcinea Technologies, the Nova Scotia, Canada Partnership owned equally by myself and Frances Bonita Hatcher
    Dulcinea Technologies Corporation, a California Corporation whose One Million Shares of Stock while Authorized remain Unissued
    Solving The Software Problem, a Non-Profit Unlicensed Sole Proprietorship
    as well as Ogg Frog, a California Sole Proprietorship
    ... have marked with my Personal Copyright Notices or the Copyright Notices of any of my Sole Proprietorships, Partnerships or Corporations whether Non-Profit or For-Profit, either of:

    The Four-Clause Berkeley Software Distribution License
    The Three-Clause Berkeley Software Distribution License
    The X/Consortium License – more commonly but incorrectly denoted as “The MIT License”
    The Free Software Foundation’s GNU General Public License version 2, version 3 or any later version thereof
    The Apache Software Foundation's Apache License versions 1.0, 2.0 or any later versions thereof
    The Apple Public Source License version 1, 2 or any later version thereof
    or the Boost Software License version 1.0 or any later version thereof.
    Loosely speaking, Soylent News gets all my Open Source and Free Software Source Code, and Binaries whether Executable or Digital Image, as well as all that "Tar Ball Backups" whether Off-Site or On-Site, my several Source Code "Trees" or Project-Specific Subdirectory Heirarchies as well as my Source Code Configuraion Management Repository Tar Ball Backups. For reasons I explained elsewhere, my preferences is for Manual, Date-Stamped Tarballs with Multiply-Redundant On- and Off-Site Backups rather for Revision Management.

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday March 26 2019, @10:28AM

    Yup, saw that back when he first posted it. I'll probably be the one gathering it all up but I won't have time to do much of anything with it beyond that for a while. I'll post a story about it when it's all squared away and if any of you lot see something you'd like to maintain and keep developing, let us know.

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