R.I.P Aaron Swartz

[bandwraith at aol.com]

I'd been annoyed by JSTOR for awhile but I have to give them credit on this one. Here's their take on the tragedy:

  http://about.jstor.org/statement-swartz

Swartz, I Imagine, would have approved of the movement.



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From: Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: bandwraith <bandwraith at aol.com>
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Sent: Sun, Jan 13, 2013 2:39 pm
Subject: Re: R.I.P Aaron Swartz


A movement has started, evidently strongly, in which academics with papers behind JSTOR wall or in other fee-to access online publications , are liberating them FREE on line in honor of Aaron.

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On Jan 13, 2013, at 2:07 PM, bandwraith at aol.com wrote:



Aaron had literally done nothing in his life “to make money.” He was fortunate Reddit turned out as it did, but from his work building the RSS standard, to his work architecting Creative Commons, to his work liberating public records, to his work building a free public library, to his work supporting Change Congress/FixCongressFirst/Rootstrikers, and then Demand Progress, Aaron was always and only working for (at least his conception of) the public good. He was brilliant, and funny. A kid genius. A soul, a conscience, the source of a question I have asked myself a million times: What would Aaron think? That person is gone today, driven to the edge by what a decent society would only call bullying. I get wrong. But I also get proportionality. And if you don’t get both, you don’t deserve to have the power of the United States government behind you.
 
http://lessig.tumblr.com/post/40347463044/prosecutor-as-bully


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