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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: 2) by RS3 on Wednesday March 27 2019, @09:16PM
> He had more friends than detractors here, and some of the best off-topic comments.
Two major reasons I liked and greatly admired MDC: 1) he never seemed to be bothered by even the most cutting comments. Maybe it was the meds? Or lack of them? I often marveled at his responses to rudeness. TMB's another one I'm trying to learn from that way. 2) yeah, sometimes MDC was 100% off-topic but it was always interesting and I enjoyed the challenge of trying to connect his seemingly obtuse comment with the thread topic.