[liberationtech] Tragic News: Aaron Swartz commits suicide

Gregory Maxwell greg at xiph.org
Sat Jan 12 11:26:32 PST 2013


On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Meredith L. Patterson
<clonearmy at gmail.com> wrote:
> The JSTOR announcement is dated January 9th. If they were showing
> sensitivity to negative attention, it was only in response to matters having
> reached the point they did *before* Aaron's suicide.

Ah, this is what I get for not reading the link. I thought this was
referring to Jstor's prior move to open up access to public domain
works (which was also behind an egregious look but don't touch or copy
TOS), which I have evidence and believe was negative attention
motivated.



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