Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 21:10:39 +0800 (SGT)
From: Vasanth
This is a very sad story about Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide on 11th
January 2013. Aaron Swartz, was online activist and a key proponent of
the movement against the US Congress' infamous Stop Online Piracy Act
(SOPA). He was also involved in copyright issues and Internet freedom.
Aarnon was propagating open access across the globe. Aarnon was facing
legal charges for downloading 4 million articles from JSTOR which he
intended to make available for free online. Though JSTOR dropped the legal
charges against him, the Federal Government, US was up in the arms with
him. Aaron wrote RSS Specification when he was just 14.
Visit the following websites to know more about Aaron and his works (sorry
for the cross posting)
Aaron Swartz, R.I.P: Swaraj Paul Barooah
http://kafila.org/2013/01/14/aaron-swartz-r-i-p-swaraj-paul-barooah/
processing the loss of Aaron Swartz
http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2013/01/13/aaron-swartz.html
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With best wishes
Vasantha Raju N
