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Re:MIT can honor Aaron Swartz by fighting to make journals o... by jhuni on Friday February 01, 2013 @12:11PM (#5151945)
He was fighting against the commodification of academic journals. MIT should have given him a medal.
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Re:MIT can honor Aaron Swartz by fighting to make journals o... by hect0r on Friday February 01, 2013 @12:29PM (#5152065)
Yes but did it occur to him that maybe the only reason such journals exist is because they are commercial enterprises?
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Re:MIT can honor Aaron Swartz by fighting to make journals o... by sp332 on Friday February 01, 2013 @01:26PM (#5152402)
You may not know this, but he founded Demand Progress. He was also the keynote speaker at Freedom to Connect 2012 in Washinton, D.C. So yeah, he probably thought about it a lot more than you have.
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