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I don't find it funny. So what if he moved to a 'banana republic tax haven', aka home to millions of people, that means he should be turned over to crooked offi

I don't find it funny. So what if he moved to a 'banana republic tax haven', aka home to millions of people, that means he should be turned over to crooked officials and executed? Come on man...I know this is the internet, but this is someone's life we are talking about. Not to mention he is a revered entrepreneur. Even if you don't like him, he built a software company from the ground-up and sold it to Intel. I would think that given where you are (HN) and who he is, there would be more compassion. He is like one of our own.

Steko 14y ago
"that means he should be turned over to crooked officials and executed?" That's a straw man; no, he shouldn't be unjustly executed. My point is that's a risk you take by living in Belize. Or Somalia, another Libertarian Paradise. If you're so scared of routine police questioning in the murder of your neighbor that you have to go on a McAfee-style trip to Bizarro world; sleeping in ditches and drinking your own urine[1] maybe the alternative of paying taxes isn't the great satan millionaires make it out to be. Or maybe he killed the guy. "Not to mention he is a revered entrepreneur." Who made his millions on the back of a society built in no small part on public investments which he is attempting to dodge. Don't let the Death Squad hit you on the way out. [1] I'm making this up but it matches my general impression of the McAfee fugitive drama.
tptacek 14y ago
John McAfee did not sell MCAF (previously NETA, previously McAfee Associates) to Intel. He was long gone by the time I got there in 1998. The company uses his name as marketing, but he hasn't influenced it since before Windows 98.