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Jan Murdoch (Ian Murdock; Konstants, Germany) — the founder of the Debian project and the commercial Progeny Debian distribution kit. Was the technical director of Group of open standards and the leader of the working group Linux Standard Base. Also Jan Murdoch founded Progeny Linux Systems company.
Biography
In 1993 the student of Purdue University Jan Murdoch wrote Manifesto Debian. In 1996 in the same educational institution Yang received the bachelor's degree in information technology field.
In 2007 Jan Murdoch came to Sun Microsystems to a position of the director of department of operational platforms. Was engaged in project development of Indiana within the OpenSolaris distribution kit.
Jan Murdoch made the significant contribution to development of the sphere of the open source, its community and the information technology industry in general. The Debian project is called in honor of Yang and his ex-wife (at that time still girlfriends) Debra.
2015: Suicide
On December 28, 2015 Jan Murdoch died under mysterious circumstances. The founder of the Debian GNU/Linux project was 42 years old, writes the ARS Technica edition.
Jan Murdoch's body was found in his house in San Francisco on December 28, 2015. This day it published the last message of the following contents on the Twitter blog.
"Today I commit suicide... Do not interfere. I have many stories for the story, and I do not want that they died with me".
Besides, Murdoch made on the Internet several chaotic expressions about the conflict with police. A day before death Murdoch was arrested for the unknown reasons and released on bail of $25 thousand. Afterwards the account of Jan Murdoch on Twitter was deleted.[1]
Murdoch's death it is announced on the community site Debian. Also about it Ben Golub, the head of cloud company Docker in which Murdoch got a job in November, 2015 wrote. According to him, Jan Murdoch's family asks media and all condoling to respect her private life and to send all inquiries through Docker.
"It is tragic loss for his family, community Docker and the whole world of Open Source. All of us grieve over his death. He was this genius and a source of inspiration for many of us. His death is a big loss for all who knew it and met it" — told It is blue.
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