Okay, I'm Freaked.

Catseye3

I uninstalled McAfee today, about half an hour ago. Just now I redd in Google News that John McAfee, creator of antivirus software, committed suicide.

WHAT HAVE I DONE???

Okay, I shouldn't joke about such a thing, but . . . geez.

xenon

What a legend.... gone, but never fully uninstalled.

jon-nyc

Last I read about him he had escaped murder charges in Central America and married a (literal) prostitute in Miami.

Catseye3

@jon-nyc Oh, okay then.

Doctor Phibes

@jon-nyc said in Okay, I'm Freaked.:

Last I read about him he had escaped murder charges in Central America and married a (literal) prostitute in Miami.

Yeah, he was pretty out there. He thought they were all out to get him. They were of course, but probably not for the reasons he thought.

Mik

An interesting life, clearly lived his way

Loki

He was an anachronism as others pointed out. Super paranoid, and likely manic as hell. OTOH he knew how to make gobs of money.

I wonder when the last time he hung out with anyone sane.

His suicide makes total sense to me.

Horace

@loki said in Okay, I'm Freaked.:

He was an anachronism as others pointed out. Super paranoid, and likely manic as hell. OTOH he knew how to make gobs of money.

I think he was a gifted programmer/hacker who luckily caught the front of the demand wave for anti-virus software. I don't think he had any general aptitudes for making money.