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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 All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Thursday April 04 2019, @02:46PM (2 children)
True. What I thought, as well, but I didn't really know him well either. I do gather from Googling that he bounced around Washington state a bit too. I know he had mentioned siblings previously so it's my assuming at work.
This sig for rent.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Friday April 05 2019, @01:00AM (1 child)
I called the funeral home in Spokane. They've never heard of him.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Friday April 05 2019, @03:01PM
Very interesting. I thought of doing that myself but didn't (maybe I said that already). Hmm....
This sig for rent.