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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, Informative) by tvleavitt on Friday April 05 2019, @06:32AM (1 child)
I'm mentioned in the will. I dug through my email, and found that he'd offered me the items in question last year. :/
I'm interested in keeping his sites up, and I have the capacity to do so through a web hosting reseller account that my wife has, among many other options. Mike wrote the paragraphs below in an email last year (my inbox is full of them), classic grandiosity with a grain of truth:
***
After some careful thought as to how my writing could still be widely
read a thousand years hence, I mailed my whole family to tell them
that the only thing I asked of them were I to die or to become
incapacitated was that I wanted them to ensure my writing stayed
online - forever.
That's why I renewed soggywizards.com for nine years, and shall soon
do the same for _all_ my domains.
***
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 05 2019, @06:55AM
Are you able to check if he indeed get to actually do it?
(I'm on transit now)