This is a sad news indeed. I was only browsing about the suicide threat yesterday! I don't know about the details prompting this threat or any related detail. So I'll refrain from further comment. But I sure that the Debian project will go on.
I also have no doubt that the LUV community will want to express its very sincere condolence to those close to Ian Murdock. Is there anyway we can express that directly to those affected? There seem to be a request to post through Docker? Cheers Daniel. On 31/12/15 13:46, Lev Lafayette via luv-main wrote: > http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/12/ian-murdock-father-of-debian-dead-at-42/ > > > Ian Murdock, founder of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution project, has > died at the age of 42. His death, announced in a blog post by Docker CEO > Ben Golub, came after an apparent encounter with police and a statement > posted on Murdock's Twitter feed that he was going to commit suicide, > though no cause of his death has been given. > > Paul Tagliamonte, a Debian developer and member of the Debian FTP Team who > contributed to a Debian Project memorial post to Murdock, told Ars: > > Debian was one of the first operating systems I've ever used, starting > with Debian 2.2 ("woody") in middle school. Debian has shaped, in the > most literal and direct way, the course of my life. Ian was a figure I > looked up to, a central figure in defining the Debian Community, > Social Contract, the Debian Free Software Guidelines, and the Open > Source Initiative.With his passing, I can only hope he's found peace, > reflect on the things he was able to do for the world, and think about > the ways in which he's touched my life. > > Murdock, born in Germany in 1973, founded Debian in 1993 while studying > computer science at Purdue University. The distribution gets its name from > the combination of his name and that of his then-girlfriend Deborah Lynn. > The pair married, and had two children; they divorced in 2007. > > Murdock's Debian Manifesto railed at the poor software maintenance of > other Linux distributions of the timeand that of Softlanding Linux System > (SLS) in particular, bemoaning the lack of attention developers gave to > distributions and what he saw as the big cash grabs being made by would-be > commercial Linux developers. He outlined Debian's modular architecture > approach as well as its adherence to free software philosophy. > > "The time has come to concentrate on the future of Linux rather than on > the destructive goal of enriching oneself at the expense of the entire > Linux community and its future," Murdock wrote in the Manifesto. "The > development and distribution of Debian may not be the answer to the > problems that I have outlined in the Manifesto, but I hope that it will at > least attract enough attention to these problems to allow them to be > solved." > > After earning his Bachelor of Science from Purdue in 1996, Murdock became > Chief Technology Officer of the Linux Foundation. In 2003, he brought his > experience with Debian to Sun, where he was Vice President of Emerging > Platforms. He led Project Indiana, the effort that created the OpenSolaris > operating system, which he described in a 2007 interview as "taking the > lesson that Linux has brought to the operating system and providing that > for Solaris as well." But three years later, after Sun was acquired by > Oracle, the plug was pulled on OpenSolaris in favor of a new proprietary > version. > > Simon Phipps, who led the open source effort at Sun alongside Murdock and > worked (though at separate times from Murdock) at the Open Source > Initiative, where Murdock was founding Secretary, told Ars Murdock "was > always energetic, enthusiastic, pragmatic and charming. I and my team [at > Sun] appreciated his insight and activity as well as enjoying his company. > I've been contacting them, and we are all devastated by his untimely > loss." > > After the Oracle acquisition, Murdock resigned his position at Sun. In > 2011, he went back to Indiana to join the cloud software company > ExactTarget as its Vice President of Platform and Developer Community. The > company was acquired by Salesforce in 2013 and became Salesforce Marketing > Cloud. In November, he left the company to join Docker in San Francisco. > > On Monday at 2:13 PM Eastern Time, Murdock apparently posted that he was > going to kill himself: > > I'm committing suicide tonight do not intervene as I have many stories > to tell and do not want them to die with me #debian #runnerkrysty67 > > Also on Monday, Murdock wrote a string of posts that indicate he had a > confrontation with police. Inquiries to the San Francisco Police > Department by Ars went unanswered. Update: Public records indicate Murdock > was arrested on December 27, and released on bail by the San Francisco > County Sheriff's Department, but no details were available on the charges. > > Golub wrote in his post that "Ians family has requested that well-wishers > and press respect their privacy and direct all inquiries through Docker." > > Ars will update this story with further details as they become available. > > > _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
