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Per the Internet Archive, it doesn't look like Reddit has ever acknowledged Aaron as a founder on this page (which seems to date to 2018), so this isn't a recen

by schoen 6y ago

Per the Internet Archive, it doesn't look like Reddit has ever acknowledged Aaron as a founder on this page (which seems to date to 2018), so this isn't a recent change. https://web.archive.org/web/20180409192133/https://www.redditinc.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20180409192133/https://www.reddi... Wikipedia's current note about this issue is > ^ Swartz has been identified as a cofounder of Reddit, but the title is a source of controversy. With the merger of Infogami and Reddit, Swartz became a co-owner and director of parent company Not A Bug, Inc., along with Reddit cofounders Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian.[262] Swartz has been referred to as "cofounder" in the press and by investor Paul Graham (who recommended the merger); Ohanian describes him as "co-owner".[34][263] I don't think anyone's position on this question has changed visibly since Aaron's death in 2013.

echelon 6y ago
I wonder what Elon Musk would think about people who don't consider him a founder of Tesla? Reddit's objection here is stupid and petty. Aaron contributed the core web framework they used.
- tomhoward 6y ago
  I commented about this in the original discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24679148 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24679148 It’s no big deal. Aaron himself said he didn’t mind if he wasn’t considered a co-founder. Starting the company and contributing to the core framework are separate things. Elon Musk wouldn’t care, he has way bigger things to think about :)
  - new_realist 6y ago
    Elon Musk does care. He’s pretty petty, and this was a sticking point of a lawsuit with a true founder of Tesla.
    - tomhoward 6y ago
      Ah so it was. I didn’t know that. Thanks. As you say, petty.
- Zak 6y ago
  Dr. Edmund Weitz contributed the core web framework they used before that, but most certainly was not a cofounder. Ben Bangert and James Gardner contributed the one they used after. I never had the impression Aaron was very interested in working on reddit. It seems to me the merger was effectively a bailout for Infogami, which had not attracted either further investment or a revenue stream. I believe some of its code may have found its way into reddit's wiki feature, but that's not likely more valuable than a weekend or two of coding. I was an early user of both reddit and Infogami and the software just wasn't that sophisticated.

by schoen 6y ago

echelon 6y ago

I wonder what Elon Musk would think about people who don't consider him a founder of Tesla? Reddit's objection here is stupid and petty. Aaron contributed the core web framework they used.

tomhoward 6y ago
I commented about this in the original discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24679148 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24679148 It’s no big deal. Aaron himself said he didn’t mind if he wasn’t considered a co-founder. Starting the company and contributing to the core framework are separate things. Elon Musk wouldn’t care, he has way bigger things to think about :)
- new_realist 6y ago
  Elon Musk does care. He’s pretty petty, and this was a sticking point of a lawsuit with a true founder of Tesla.
  - tomhoward 6y ago
    Ah so it was. I didn’t know that. Thanks. As you say, petty.
Zak 6y ago
Dr. Edmund Weitz contributed the core web framework they used before that, but most certainly was not a cofounder. Ben Bangert and James Gardner contributed the one they used after. I never had the impression Aaron was very interested in working on reddit. It seems to me the merger was effectively a bailout for Infogami, which had not attracted either further investment or a revenue stream. I believe some of its code may have found its way into reddit's wiki feature, but that's not likely more valuable than a weekend or two of coding. I was an early user of both reddit and Infogami and the software just wasn't that sophisticated.