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Debian Founder Threatens with Suicide on Twitter, Reports Police Abuse, Allegedly

posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday December 29 2015, @04:54PM   Printer-friendly
from the hope-all-is-ok dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes with an article from Softpedia:

[Debian founder] Ian Murdock posted a really worrying message saying that he's going to commit suicide, and later on, he continued the series of posts by saying that he has been beaten by the police and charged with battery. It's not clear what exactly has transpired, but people are split down the middle on whether to believe the whole thing or not.

One of the theories doing rounds is that his Twitter account got hijacked and someone is posting stuff on it. The latest tweets do not match the way he usually talks on Twitter, making this a likely scenario.

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by Gravis on Tuesday December 29 2015, @05:36PM

    by Gravis (4596) on Tuesday December 29 2015, @05:36PM (#282104)

    i guess the police really don't like systemd either. ;)

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 29 2015, @06:47PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 29 2015, @06:47PM (#282142)

    i guess the police really don't like systemd either. ;)

    Beat me to it!

    • (Score: 2) by q.kontinuum on Wednesday December 30 2015, @04:03AM

      by q.kontinuum (532) on Wednesday December 30 2015, @04:03AM (#282371) Journal

      Beat me to it!

      No, allegedly they beat him for it.

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  • (Score: 2) by Knowledge Troll on Thursday December 31 2015, @05:58PM

    by Knowledge Troll (5948) on Thursday December 31 2015, @05:58PM (#283068) Homepage Journal

    Jesus even I thought twice about cracking that remark. Thank you for doing it!