• Aaron Swartz, Co-Founder of Reddit Commits Suicide
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[QUOTE=Tomthetechy;39191729]Why did he commit suicide? The article doesn't make it clear at all.[/QUOTE] The time behind bars for the charges he faced were 35+ years, fucking ridiculous considering neither MIT or JStor wanted to press charges, yet they were pressed anyway. The files he stole would of provided free educational information for many who would otherwise have no access to it. It's just terrible how this escalated to him taking his own life rather than face those charges for helping people. [editline]16th January 2013[/editline] And I've just realized I'm late to the party by a few days, oops.
Ridicilous, 35+ years for PLANNING to distribute unclassified fucking TEXT. [editline]16th January 2013[/editline] Oh and now appareantly JSTOR announced that they will be publishing more than 4.5 million documents for free.
[img]http://ww2.hdnux.com/photos/17/25/53/4020965/7/628x471.jpg[/img] but he was jesus to many
[url]http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/16jq95/eli5_who_was_aaron_swartz_and_what_is_the/[/url] Someone on Reddit did an excellent post explaining the whole situation in an easy to understand way.
The biggest disservice we can do to Swartz is describing him as the co-founder of Reddit. That's like calling Washington a guy who cut down a tree once
[QUOTE=Zeke129;39247321]The biggest disservice we can do to Swartz is describing him as the co-founder of Reddit. That's like calling Washington a guy who cut down a tree once[/QUOTE] If people only know Washington as the guy who cut down a tree, it's good context.
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