#aaronsw was a great person, open, creative, principled, brilliant, charismatic, and funny.
Having said that, what he allegedly did with JSTOR was stupid, wrong, and stupidly and wrongly done. I wish he had talked to me about it.
I was the system admin for Menlo Innovations when it wrote the front-end software for JSTOR. I had root on everything. Had I wished, I could have backdoored the code to hell and back. But that's against the System Administrators Code.
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