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I liked Swartz a lot. He was idealistic and brilliant. His death was as sad as it was unnecessary. After his death though, I always found it inappropriate wh
by SquareWheel 6y ago
I liked Swartz a lot. He was idealistic and brilliant. His death was as sad as it was unnecessary.
After his death though, I always found it inappropriate when obituaries and memorials called him a reddit cofounder. He joined reddit as part of a merger and didn't stay on long before being let go. The original founders didn't consider him a cofounder, and until his death did not have the nicest things to say about him.
Personally I think there's better things to remember him by than that rather negative chapter. He created a lot of good outside reddit. Personally I still use RSS to this day, and am occasionally reminded by that of his story.
- maga_maga 6y agoReddit used web.py written by Arron Swartz as framework ever before.