I first heard of his passing in an email from an guy I knew from the olden days at Autodesk. He was passing on an inquiry from Carl Bass (CEO in the first years of the century). Took a couple of days to find a solid answer, which came from a Swiss site that John had posted to in recent years.
BTW, neither the SF Chronicle nor the local Marin paper, San Rafael Independent-Journal, has run an item on this; nor did either evince any interest when I sent them the news. It hardly needs mentioning that Autodesk is very well known in Marin County.
The lack of public notice on the Autodesk site is rather odd; the company management in this century has had nothing like the contempt for the founders that prevailed in the Bartz regime.
Right. I was looking for a press release or something. Did not see one.
Came here to write the same thing. Bizarre that there is literally nothing about his death on their website or social media accounts.
Yeah, that's cold.
When steve jobs died people were leaving post its and mementos at my local apple stote… which were promptly removed. Corporations are completely sociopathic