RIP john McAfee
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RIP john McAfee
not ur usual tech giant and certainly made waves in the industry
still....
still....
John McAfee, the controversial antivirus software magnate who'd had multiple recent run-ins with the US law, has died at 75. McAfee was awaiting extradition in a Spanish prison after being charged with tax evasion in the United States last year.
McAfee was found dead in his cell in a prison near Barcelona on Wednesday around 1 p.m. ET and a medical examiner is on the scene, a spokeswoman for the Superior Court of Catalonia told CNN. She said the cause of death is under investigation.
A statement from the Catalonia regional government Justice Department, which manages prisons there, said that prison medical personnel and guards attempted to perform life-saving procedures after finding McAfee, but were unsuccessful. The statement said "everything indicates" that McAfee could have died by suicide.
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Re: RIP john McAfee
dude lived a pretty crazy life
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A bit of a resemblance to Al Pacino in that photo.
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I watched some of his videos. I couldn’t work out if it if it was satire or he was just utterly nuts.
People of the world, spice up your life.
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I wouldn't pass judgment on the man himself, but his software became the bane of every computer geeks life. There was a time when you couldn't buy a new computer / laptop without having it pre-installed and often impossible to get rid of. It still happens now - Adobe Acrobat (the PDF app) is a good example of the top of my head. Unless you read every bit of text and uncheck every box before you download it, you're computer is so infested with McAfee crap it's difficult to distinguish it from the viruses it's supposed to protect you from.
I would never go near the junk software, just because of the incredibly aggressive marketing tactics it employed.
I would never go near the junk software, just because of the incredibly aggressive marketing tactics it employed.
The difference between animals and humans is that animals would never allow the dumb ones to lead the pack.
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Wasn’t there any hoo haa about competition, like when MS preinstalled Internet Explorer?
People of the world, spice up your life.
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@mannanman re: lawsuits against Mcafee
It looks like McAfee was not sued for anti trust- at least not in a big way like Microsoft was in that famous case. McAfee was sued for plenty of other stuff though and he was accused of a murder and it's really mind boggling, this guy and his life and now death....I always un install it too and it is a sticky bit of code. Have to say the man I am reading and hearing about had some cajones and a strong will. RIP John McAfee.
It looks like McAfee was not sued for anti trust- at least not in a big way like Microsoft was in that famous case. McAfee was sued for plenty of other stuff though and he was accused of a murder and it's really mind boggling, this guy and his life and now death....I always un install it too and it is a sticky bit of code. Have to say the man I am reading and hearing about had some cajones and a strong will. RIP John McAfee.
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Saddening news. What an exciting life, what a character!
RIP John, endless streams of coke and Caribbean virgins to you in the afterlife.
RIP John, endless streams of coke and Caribbean virgins to you in the afterlife.
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RIP, you crazy bastard.
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Of course you guys would be sadden by a pedophiles passing
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