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Before there was Aaron Swartz, there was David LaMacchia
- danso 14y agoNon pay wall link http://epaper.bostonglobe.com/epaper/iphone/homepage.aspx#_article0bd7a60c-a977-40d3-8759-15a4a3a2cebe http://epaper.bostonglobe.com/epaper/iphone/homepage.aspx#_a... Few points of interest: Steve Heymnann was the prosecutor Lamacchio offered Swartz advice but never heard back
- erik757 14y agoInteresting article - but it would have been nice if the Globe had more clearly explained the distinctions between making academic papers available for free, vs. making commercial software like Microsoft Excel or SimCity available free - a lot of readers will come away with the wrong idea there. Aside from the prosecutor and the venue, these cases really aren't very similar.