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Re:Aaron Swartz, Asking For Help, 119 Days Ago by Permit on Monday January 14, 2013 @07:21PM (#5057620)
YOU STILL DON'T KNOW THE DETAILS.

There was no suicide note. There was no reason given. The closest thing we have is a suggestion from his family, which caused everyone to instantly jump on one of three different bandwagons getting as many people fired and as many laws changed as possible. We have no idea of gauging whether or not that suggestion is correct, so we all read in to things we THINK suggest the reasons for his suicide.

It's ridiculous how so many people here are claiming "You shouldn't comment unless you know about the situation" when knowing absolutely dick-all about the situation right now.

Re:Aaron Swartz, Asking For Help, 119 Days Ago by davorak on Monday January 14, 2013 @08:19PM (#5057874)
> YOU STILL DON'T KNOW THE DETAILS.

No we do not, but everyone still needs to decided if and how they will act differently going forward with this new data point regardless of what we do not know.

Jumping to conclusions is bad not changing at all is also bad.

Re:Aaron Swartz, Asking For Help, 119 Days Ago by Dn_Ab on Tuesday January 15, 2013 @12:53AM (#5058916)
There was his blog. Alas I did not frequent the right part of the internet to have fixed him to mind but those who read his blog should have seen someone who has for sometime struggled with his state.