Debian Linux founder Ian Murdock dead at 42

Gah.

I was only a recent convert to 'straight' debian (After years of Ubuntu - the popularity of which is a testament to Debians solid foundations) and I feel rather affected by this.

Far too young, and doubtless had more to give. Oh well, that's the way the cookie crumbles.

All the best to his family at what is doubtless a troubling and upsetting time.

Steven R

Regardless of the background

This is just another worrying incident in which the US police have been involved. We keep hearing of them killing mentally disturbed people (in the most recent case killing a completely uninvolved bystander as well), as well as people who were behaving completely legally but happened to be black. The US police seem to be increasingly militarised and increasingly unaccountable. It's entirely possible that an encounter with them could have disastrous consequences even if the victim wasn't actually killed at the scene.

There were questions around the death of Alan Turing (at a similar age) in which suicide was never conclusively demonstrated, after his own involvement on the wrong end of the criminal justice system.

This is another tragedy, and it needs to be properly investigated.

Condolences

Condolences to Mr Murdock's family. I didn't know him, but my life has been greatly enriched by the software suite started by him, and by its derivative. If injustices were committed against Ian Murdock that ultimately caused his death, may those responsible be found and prosecuted.

You shall be remembered, Ian Murdock, with much love and respect for how you made the world that little bit better for all of us..

He remainds me the life of computer genius Phil Katz

The genius who built a multimillion-dollar software company known

worldwide for its pioneering "zip" files had died of acute

pancreatic bleeding caused by chronic alcoholism.

http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/library/CONTROVERSY/LAWSUITS/SEA/katzbio.txt

Dear big D

Why couldn't you have taken Rupert instead?

According to MSNBC

Global warming takes another one.

Move along...

Nothing to see here folks.

RIP

Ian's contributions will be remembered for many years particularly in Debian.

42

42 is not an age to pass on, at 42 your life is really only getting started. Very tragic.

More Information than I have seen anywhere else

Yet still so many unanswered questions. What possessed Ian to try to enter his neighbor's house? I need more information before I can attain any kind of closure.

sex offenders in law enforcement an epidemic!

Sexual assault is a huge problem in law enforcement especially In St. Petersburg Florida. There is grass roots movement throughout the state to cover up all official crimes. And it's up to the local Sheriff of each county if they want to cover up the crime or not. But the sexual perverts know how to conspire with judges to use their status to force all Sheriffs of any county to defer to sexual perverts in law enforcement.

Now It becomes a total state corruption because the governor defers to elected Sheriffs to deal with crimes in their county as they see fit. The Ag of the state defers to the governor and nothing is done to the growing problem of sexual perverts in law enforcement!

The only solution officials see as logical is continue to attack any victims of official sexual misconduct- crimes to keep them quiet.

Since law enforcement has open access to intelligence, all politicians feel threatened to conform to the sexual perversion unless they want their families violated as well.

The federal government won't do anything because they want to promote minorities rights and arresting official sexual perverts who have protected statuses are not consider a solution at this point in time. So the victim continues to get jacked up the backside, horrendously abused, family attacked until they learn to be quiet about sexual predators in law enforcement.

My family has been experiencing ongoing crimes since 2001. The goal is to drive victims to suicide through ongoing aggravated stalking to exploit mental state to use as an excuse the victim must be mental!

Police Murder Again.

Being a reader of PINAC, combined with his last tweets, and the principles of Occams razor, it police murder again.

Re: Mental illness

I agree with AC above, mental illness is not necessarily the cause of suicide.

One day I was just sitting at home, not particularly stressed or anxious, when without warning an overwhelming desire to kill myself occurred.

I can only describe it as if someone had dropped "the bell-jar of doom" over me. It was intense, there seemed no purpose to continue living. This horrible mood probably only lasted 10 minutes but was the longest 10 minutes of my life.

What saved me was my belief in re-incarnation, the thought that I would have to go through the process of being re-born and learning all that stuff again. Scoff if you will but it worked for me.

My condolences to Ian's family and friends.