You owe him RSS, you owe him Markdown, you owe him Creative Commons, you owe him Reddit.

He was 26, wanted to share knowledge for free and they pushed him to suicide for it.

He would be 34 by now, and I cannot imagine all the wonderful things he would have created.

  • LeninsRage [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Glad I'm not a shitlib anymore like I was in 2013 and can understand his fate was an atrocity of "justice" rather than just desserts, which I was literally arguing back in the day.

    • CementEscapist [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Curious, what was behind the shitlib argument that his death was just desserts? I can barely remember 2013.

      • LeninsRage [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Effectively saying "He broke the law" as many times as necessary until the target accepts that spreading learning resources to others for free is a capital offense