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- Swartz was one of the early architects of Creative Commons and a developer of the Internet Archives’ Open Library, a free book database and digital library open to the public. He founded software company Infogami, and when it merged with online news site Reddit, he became a co-owner.
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Aaron Swartz was born in Highland Park, 25 miles (40 kilometers) north of Chicago, [2] [23] into a Jewish family. [24] He was the eldest child of Susan and Robert Swartz and brother to Noah and Ben Swartz. [1] [25] He was an atheist. [26] His father founded the software firm Mark Williams Company.
Sep 10, 2013 · “Aaron wasn’t an institutional man. He was comfortable working with people from many walks of life, many institutions and many organizations,” mused Kahle. “Aaron lived an open-source life. He believed in the goals many people espouse, but he didn’t just espouse them – he lived them.”
Jan 10, 2022 · The developer who sabotaged two of his own open source code libraries, causing disruptions for thousands of apps that used them, has a colorful past that includes embracing a QAnon theory...
The Brilliant Life and Tragic Death of Aaron Swartz. He was a child prodigy, an Internet pioneer and an activist who refused to back down - even when the feds tried to break him. I n the ...
Sep 25, 2014 · One of his last commits in GitHub was on the victorykit project, a free and open source platform to run campaigns for social change. And, on August 3, 2013, Aaron was posthumously inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame. The documentary is free and available to watch on YouTube.
Jan 13, 2013 · According to these tweets, Aaron Swartz had at one time aided Wikileaks in some indefinite way, had been in communication with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, and may have acted as a source...
Oct 4, 2013 · For his last two years, he had been the subject of a vigorous federal prosecution by the Boston U.S. attorney on charges of using a laptop connected to the MIT network to download millions of...
