(EFE) – The founder Debian , Ian Murdock member of the Linux Foundation and one of the greatest exponents of free software died this week at age 42, said Thursday the blog Docker open platform developers.
“ Debian mourns the passing of Ian Murdock, a strong supporter of free and open software, father, son and the ‘ian’ Debian ,” the company said in a statement.
Murdock, German-American, founded in 1993 Debian , a free operating system based on Unix and one of the most used software equipment computer scientists and programmers around the world.
“Ian’s approach was to create a distribution community to do the right thing ethically and technically,” he said Debian .
Murdock was chief technology officer of the Linux Foundation, in 2003 he became vice president of Sun Microsystems until the company was acquired by software maker Oracle.
He later developed systems in the cloud and went to work for the company Salesforce.
Last November, Murdock left the company to join Docker, an open platform for software developers.
The death of Murdock comes after Monday published a few tweets about a confrontation with police.
That same day Murdock apparently posted a tweet in which he said he was going to commit suicide, although the circumstances of his death still They have not been clarified.
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