Yellow on the death of the “father” of free software Linux Debian – BBC

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Milan , January 5, 2016 – 13:55

     
     
 

Become a yellow death of the millionaire Californian, Ian Murdock, found dead Monday, December 28 after being arrested during the post-Christmas weekend. The items to keep the case open are there:
1) there is half the police in California, ended in the news several times for violent methods. Murdock had been arrested twice within hours that weekend, the last on the night between 26 and 27 December on charges of attempting to break open the door of a neighbor’s house. He was released Sunday with $ 25 thousand bail;
2) was an influential person in his community, that of open source. He was known for having founded a kind of operating system based on Linux, Debian, a name derived from the portmanteau between Deborah, his ex-wife, and himself, Ian;
3) There are also half of social networks: the apparent suicide before that time someone questions (actually the family has not leaked the information about his death) Murdock himself had posted the story of his Stop accusing the police of being violent with him, although he was “white” and “millionaire”.

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And its messages now fuels uncertainty: some spoke of suicide, others said he wanted to devote rest of his life to fighting the gratuitous violence of the police (that Murdock was drunk, a state that would take him to get injured, “incidentally the head”). Many coincidences or too many contradictions.

5 January 2016 (modified January 5, 2016 | 16:30)

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