#AaronSwartz killed himself because he scraped research data and they aggressively prosecuted him.

Now #AI companies say they should scrape our data for free.

@benroyce

All my open-source applications are published under the "permissive" *MIT* License... How ironic, somehow!

https://capitalaspower.com/2019/12/the-legacy-of-aaron-swartz-the-fight-for-open-access/

#opensource #openaccess #mit #aaronswartz

The Legacy of Aaron Swartz: The Fight for Open Access – Capital As Power

Originally published on Economics from the Top Down Blair Fix Over the past few weeks, I’ve been thinking a lot about Aaron Swartz. Swartz was an internet pioneer who, in his teens and early 20s, made huge contributions to computer culture. Among other things, Swartz helped develop RSS (which organizes web feeds), Markdown (a simple […]

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