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Hopefully like him, but not with that ending.
by Aelinsaar 10y ago
Hopefully like him, but not with that ending.
- nathancahill 10y ago"They say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.". That was not even close to the ending of Aaron Swartz.
- Aelinsaar 10y agoA good point, I chose my words poorly.
- dredmorbius 10y agoYou did fine. I hugely appreciate what Aaron did. I wouldn't want to see what happened to him occur again in the name of Open Access, and I'm hoping it doesn't. But yes, keeping his name and cause alive would be a Very Good Thing.
- nxzero 10y agoIt will happened again, nothing has changed; if anything, things are getting worse, not better.
- Mtinie 10y agoSpreading the gospel of Open Access sounds strange today, but someday, in the future, it just will be.
- Aelinsaar 10y agoI like to think about what how people in some hypothetical future might view us, in broad strokes at least. What will they look at us, aghast, the way we look at rampant lice, or heating a curling iron (that was actually IRON!) over a fire? Along with the fact that most of us take our lives and health into our hands daily in cards, I suspect that the lack of Open Access, the role of money in our science and medicine, will be up there too.