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: 4, Informative) by takyon on Wednesday March 27 2019, @12:28AM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Reed_Army_Medical_Center_neglect_scandal [wikipedia.org]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterans_Health_Administration_scandal_of_2014 [wikipedia.org]
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/374542-the-real-va-scandal-no-will-to-help-veterans [thehill.com]
^ People who were supposed to receive great health care for the rest of their lives.
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