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Previous thread about Ian Murdock: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10803924 This news is, tragically, new information. :(
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He also literally said he was going to commit suicide, so perhaps we should stop speculating and wait for someone who actually has real information to share it. Seriously, if ever comment on this page containing the phrase "I believe" or "I think" was deleted right now, we would not lose any objective facts.
I'd strongly prefer to focus on honoring the memory of Ian, but... while googling, I found this page: (warning, it's a 4chan thread, overflowing with hateful comments) https://archive.is/2Cdj1 In there, horrible people are inviting other horrible people to go on twitter and troll (i.e. harass) Ian. If you're close to taking your own life, you want to be close to your loved ones, and the last thing you want is to get…
He was thoughtful, funny, hard working, and incredibly well-connected in the free (and commercial) software communities. I will miss him.
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He also literally said he was going to commit suicide, so perhaps we should stop speculating and wait for someone who actually has real information to share it. Seriously, if ever comment on this page containing the phrase "I believe" or "I think" was deleted right now, we would not lose any objective facts.
I'd strongly prefer to focus on honoring the memory of Ian, but... while googling, I found this page: (warning, it's a 4chan thread, overflowing with hateful comments) https://archive.is/2Cdj1 In there, horrible people are inviting other horrible people to go on twitter and troll (i.e. harass) Ian. If you're close to taking your own life, you want to be close to your loved ones, and the last thing you want is to get…
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He also literally said he was going to commit suicide, so perhaps we should stop speculating and wait for someone who actually has real information to share it. Seriously, if ever comment on this page containing the phrase "I believe" or "I think" was deleted right now, we would not lose any objective facts.
I'd strongly prefer to focus on honoring the memory of Ian, but... while googling, I found this page: (warning, it's a 4chan thread, overflowing with hateful comments) https://archive.is/2Cdj1 In there, horrible people are inviting other horrible people to go on twitter and troll (i.e. harass) Ian. If you're close to taking your own life, you want to be close to your loved ones, and the last thing you want is to get…
This sounds a lot more like 4chan trolls than it does one of the leading lights of OSS. I know people are trying not to speculate, but I wouldn't be surprised if his account was hacked. In any case, I think you can honor they memory of Ian and still try to find out what happened to him.
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He said on Twitter that police beat him up once, and then a second time after following him home. I hope there is a real investigation, this is enraging.
In the UK, which is a common law country, the local coroner would be involved with any death that was not expected (i.e. not an older person or someone who is terminally ill and under medical care) or in which there are suspicious circumstances. That process may involve a police investigation and, independently of that, there can be an inquest. Inquests have quite a history in the case of deaths in police custody in…
This was very recent, and the facts are not yet in. The best evidence we have to go on is his most recent tweets, captured on Pastebin ( http://pastebin.com/dX3VSPkM ). His Twitter account ( https://twitter.com/imurdock ) seems to have been deleted, which is extremely strange. Main notes: * He was repeatedly beaten by the police. He alludes to having taken photos of the injuries, and having been hospitalized, so this…
Exactly. And yet you write "He was repeatedly beaten by the police" ... "this will be easily proven".
Your post is incredibly irresponsible. You know nothing at all of what happened, all you have are the posts of someone having a mental breakdown.
And you don't just stop at what he wrote on twitter. No, you continue with literally stuff from your own imagination:
"I believe this was murder: he died from a head injury sustained at the hands of the police."
People's lives have been ruined many many times by other people jumping to conclusions before knowing all the facts. I don't know if jumping to conclusions will hurt anyone here, but you should NOT do it. Ever.
PS. This: "but he made clear future plans which weren't executed, so this will be a lie" does not in the slightest rule out suicide. People committing suicide almost always have future plans.
This was very recent, and the facts are not yet in. The best evidence we have to go on is his most recent tweets, captured on Pastebin ( http://pastebin.com/dX3VSPkM ). His Twitter account ( https://twitter.com/imurdock ) seems to have been deleted, which is extremely strange. Main notes: * He was repeatedly beaten by the police. He alludes to having taken photos of the injuries, and having been hospitalized, so this…
This was very recent, and the facts are not yet in. The best evidence we have to go on is his most recent tweets, captured on Pastebin ( http://pastebin.com/dX3VSPkM ). His Twitter account ( https://twitter.com/imurdock ) seems to have been deleted, which is extremely strange. Main notes: * He was repeatedly beaten by the police. He alludes to having taken photos of the injuries, and having been hospitalized, so this…
The only data there is is Ian's tweets and they are strongly indicating police brutality but nothing in there supports your murder allegation.