Update: The San Francisco Police Department has provided an account of the incident.
Docker announced on the 30th that the famous Debian founder Ian Murdock has passed away at the age of 42.
He is also a Docker employee, and previously served as CTO of the Linux Foundation, chief architect of Sun Microsystems' Indiana project, and a SalesForce employee. This incident brings great sadness to his family, the Debian community, the Docker community, and the open source world.
The cause of his death was not stated in the article announcing the news . Docker declined to comment. The San Francisco Police Department also did not provide timely information on the cause of Ian Murdock's death. (Update: The San Francisco Police Department gave the incident. )
On Monday local time, his Twitter account posted some tweets ( PDF archive ) indicating that he had some conflicts with the police, and a tweet at night said that he was going to commit suicide . There was speculation that his Twitter account was hacked and was later deleted.
Ian Murdock died on Monday night, and the exact circumstances of the incident are still unknown.
"Ian took the lead in establishing true open source projects and open source communities, embracing open design and open contribution; in fact, the guiding document of the open source movement (Open Source Definition) was originally formed from Debian's position statement," Docker CEO Ben Golub wrote in a blog post, "This is a commitment from Ian to contribute to open source, and currently more than 1,000 people in the Debian community have participated in its development."
Murdock created Debian in August 1993 , and he is the "ian" in the name "Debian". In his personal blog , he said of the project's results, "Anyone can contribute to the software libraries it integrates, and Debian is arguably the industry's first (albeit primitive) app store."
In the past few years, Docker has become the most popular Linux container , which is inseparable from his joining the startup, and he is widely praised in the Linux world. On Twitter on Monday, many Debian users expressed sympathy and support for him. The Debian community also posted tributes .
Debian and the wider Linux community may send your condolences to [email protected] .
Reference sources: venturebeat , debian , docker
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