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I also suffer from depression, and have struggled with inappropriate thoughts due to my experience with police.
It is sad that he has apparently actually committed suicide - as I would have loved to join him in his fight against state abuse.
I wish I would have had the opportunity to work with / support this effort.
I too have suffered from abuse from cops here in the bay area - specifically the city of Alameda, and one cop in particular. I also suffer from depression, and have struggled with inappropriate thoughts due to my experience with police. It is sad that he has apparently actually committed suicide - as I would have loved to join him in his fight against state abuse. I wish I would have had the opportunity to work with…
Very sad. We all owe him a debt of gratitude for the creation of Debian, the most widely used GNU/Linux distribution today.[1] Does anyone here actually know what happened? -- [1] Ubuntu is based on Debian: https://www.debian.org/misc/children-distros
His recent twitter history shows his apparent motivation:
* http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:le7oSCj...
* http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:umvcoAj...
Also, for those who weren't previously acquainted: Ian was the "ian" in Debian, the Linux distro he created which is the basis for Ubuntu. He started work at Docker in November, which is why they are publishing this.
I'm sure this sounds as vinyl scratching to a lot of ears
Debian stands on its own, though that statement is correct
He was the founder of the Debian project, let's remember him for that or other contributions he's made to the tech community.
Debian has grown to be one of the most well known and popular Linux distribution, used in production, in the cloud, as the base for SteamOS, Ubuntu and other projects. It is and was a major part of what made Linux popular.