Some archived tweets here, last link for some context:<p><a href="https://archive.is/9HF4c" rel="nofollow">https://archive.is/9HF4c</a><p><a href="https://archive.is/DcVrY" rel="nofollow">https://archive.is/DcVrY</a><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151230193102/https://twitter.com/jackstormwriter" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20151230193102/https://twitter.c...</a>
Sad to hear this.<p>I wish that someone who felt so desperate would not be in a manic state, and use their considerable funds (if he made 1.4 million last year alone) in a campaign against police brutality. A life like a Christian monk from the medieval era or a Buddhist of freedom. As far as his "career being over" as he said, someone of his stature would have been gladly supported by generous benefactors as he spent a life crusading against injustices even if he spent every dime he had.<p>He likely had other demons going on, but this is reaction is something that someone very justice minded, someone who would demand libre software like Debian would do.
That said, Debian is the most respected distro in the world. Hearing Ubuntu mentioned so much next to Debian is like nails on a chalkboard to me, but as an extension Mint has an Ubuntu base and straight Debian base available, and even SteamOS is based off Debian. So almost everything noteworthy, quite a legacy.<p>An injustice in the software that governs our lives is bad enough, but injustices outside are hard to swallow. RIP Ian.
There are definitely some people who need to be looked into judging from his last tweets.
<a href="http://pastebin.com/PLxw4buc" rel="nofollow">http://pastebin.com/PLxw4buc</a>
Its really sad to see someone who contributed so much to world, life ended so sudden like this.<p>Looking at twitter conversion. Most people speculating this tweet on suicide. He also said "The rest of my life will be devoted to fighting against police abuse".
This is incredibly sad--RIP Ian. Some may consider his actions extreme, but if you haven't been harassed, arrested, and deprived of your rights + freedom you won't understand how shitty it feels.
Some more tweets:<p>jackstormwriter - wonder who owns this @ianmurdock account, 2007 no post.<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20151230193102/https:/twitter.com/jackstormwriter" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20151230193102/https:/twitter.co...</a>
Very few people know the cause of death right now, but the speculation is pretty convincing to me that it was suicide after allegedly being a victim of police brutality and rape by police officer.<p>Of course, this isn't confirmed. But if it is, oh the anger.<p>Even if it isn't, this is a damned shame.
From the Pastebin doc of his tweets:<p>>5:27pm: Maybe my suicide at this, you now, a successful business man, not a NIGGER, will finally bring some attention to this very serious issue.<p><a href="http://pastebin.com/yk8bgru5" rel="nofollow">http://pastebin.com/yk8bgru5</a><p>Nice intersectionalism there. /s
> 5:27pm: Maybe my suicide at this, you now, a successful business man, not a [edit], will finally bring some attention to this very serious issue.<p>Huh??<p>Ian was obviously fighting with some very serious demons.<p>My heart goes out to his loved ones who survive him, and I pray he finds peace where he took himself.<p>From personal experience, this can be a very lonely and painful time of year.