[liberationtech] Tragic News: Aaron Swartz commits suicide

Eugen Leitl eugen at leitl.org
Sat Jan 12 12:38:52 PST 2013


On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 07:50:58PM +0100, Julian Oliver wrote:

> We should all stop supporting knowledge mafia like JSTOR by discouraging our
> peers to publish there. It's bad enough that publicly funded universities push
> their knowledge output to a private business interest. 
> 
> A great way to channel any despair from Aaron's death is to encourage peers to
> publish openly.

As a means of civil disobedience against unacceptable practices, consider
submitting liberated content to projects like Library Genesis.



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