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This is a well-written and useful article. If a lot of people are against you you may be onto something big, or you may be just wrong.

I wonder if Aaron will discuss the furor caused by his JSTOR activism (http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/reddit-co-founder-c... also see the many discussions on HN, e.g. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2781615). The case here is not as clear cut as, say, the case of Semmelweis. I am also undecided (hate the greedy closed magazines, don't quite approve the sneaking in part) on it.

I would really know what his objective analysis of the situation is unless he's already done a post that I've missed or if he can't talk about a court case.



I'm fairly sure that the federal case against Aaron is still being litigated (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz#JSTOR), which means that he almost certainly can't discuss details publicly.


Personally, I enjoy his writing and feel like it's none of my business how the JSTOR case is going.

It does occur to me, though, that a post of his about legitimate self-critique might actually be somewhat related to regrettable past deeds such as you mention.

Or, I could be wrong. Who knows?




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