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.
It's absolutely heartbreaking. They basically told him that they were about to ruin his entire life, for the rest of his life, and he felt so trapped that he took a step he thought would get him out of that corner. Reminds me of that piece of shit cop that was going to bust that old moonshiner "Popcorn" Sutton and Popcorn killed himself to avoid going to prison for the rest of his life.