Ian Murdock

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Ian Murdock
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Murdock, in interview, April 2008
Born (1973-04-28)28 April 1973
Konstanz, West Germany
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San Francisco, California, U.S.
Alma mater Purdue University
Occupation Programmer
Employer Docker
Known for Debian GNU/Linux

Ian Ashley Murdock (28 April 1973 – 28 December 2015) was a German-born American software engineer, known for being the founder of the Debian project and Progeny Linux Systems, a commercial Linux company.

Life and career

Murdock was born in Konstanz, West Germany on 28 April 1973. He wrote the Debian Manifesto while a student at Purdue University, where he earned his bachelor's degree in computer science in 1996. He named Debian after his then-girlfriend Debra Lynn, and himself (Deb and Ian).[1] They subsequently married (between 1993 and 1996), filed for divorce on the week of 10 August 2007,[2] and were granted the divorce in January 2008.[3]

In January 2006, Murdock was appointed Chief Technology Officer of the Free Standards Group and elected chair of the Linux Standard Base workgroup.[4] He continued as CTO of the Linux Foundation when the group was formed from the merger of the Free Standards Group and Open Source Development Labs.

Murdock left the Linux Foundation to join Sun Microsystems in March 2007[5] to lead Project Indiana, which he described as "taking the lesson that Linux has brought to the operating system and providing that for Solaris", making a full OpenSolaris distribution with GNOME and userland tools from GNU plus a network-based package management system.[6] From March 2007 to February 2010, he was Vice President of Emerging Platforms at Sun,[7] until the company merged with Oracle and he resigned his position with the company.[8]

From 2011 until 2015 Murdock was Vice President of Platform and Developer Community at Salesforce Marketing Cloud, based in Indianapolis.[8][9]

From November 2015 until his death Murdock was working for Docker, Inc.[8]

Death

Murdock died on 28 December 2015[10][11] in San Francisco.[12] As of 1 January 2016, no details of his cause of death have been officially released.[13][14]

The last tweets from Murdock's Twitter account first announced that he would commit suicide, then said he would not. He reported having an altercation with police, and finally declared an intent to devote his life to opposing police abuse. His Twitter account was taken down shortly afterwards.[15]

The San Francisco police confirmed he was detained, saying he matched the description in a reported attempted break-in and that he appeared to be drunk.[16][17] The police stated that he became violent and was ultimately taken to jail on suspicion of four misdemeanor counts. They added that he did not appear to be suicidal and was medically examined prior to release. Later, police returned on reports of a possible suicide. The city medical examiner’s office confirmed Murdock was found dead.[18][19]

See also

References

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