How academia betrayed and continues to betray Aaron Swartz
abernard102@gmail.com 2013-01-24
Summary:
As news spread last week that digital rights activist Aaron Swartz had killed himself ahead of a federal trial on charges that he illegally downloaded a large database of scholarly articles with the intent to freely disseminate its contents, thousands of academics began posting free copies of their work online, coalescing around the Twitter hashtag [...]