Thinking of Aaron Swartz today & I’m stuck on this photo - he & OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (both circled) each scraped 1000s of docs but one did it to make the knowledge free for all while the other did it to make $$$$ through probabilistic plagiarism. The US DOJ only came after one of them & the other is feted by tech bros and executives.
Thank you Aaron for so much, for RSS, for Markdown, for Creative Commons and more. I’m sorry our society failed you.
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DeltaLima 🐧 🍲 GPN23 ✆ 2744
Als Antwort auf Jeremia Kimelman • • •Daring Fireball: Markdown
daringfireball.netJeremia Kimelman
Als Antwort auf DeltaLima 🐧 🍲 GPN23 ✆ 2744 • • •@DeltaLima Yes John is the creator but scroll down to the "Acknowledgements" section:
> Aaron Swartz deserves a tremendous amount of credit for his feedback on the design of Markdown’s formatting syntax. Markdown is *much* better thanks to Aaron’s ideas, feedback, and testing. Also, Aaron’s html2text is a very handy (and free) utility for turning HTML into Markdown-formatted plain text.
DeltaLima 🐧 🍲 GPN23 ✆ 2744
Als Antwort auf Jeremia Kimelman • • •Björn Hesthamar
Als Antwort auf DeltaLima 🐧 🍲 GPN23 ✆ 2744 • • •John Gruber
Als Antwort auf Björn Hesthamar • • •sixarp
Als Antwort auf John Gruber • • •DeltaLima 🐧 🍲 GPN23 ✆ 2744
Als Antwort auf sixarp • • •stux⚡
Als Antwort auf Jeremia Kimelman • • •Oof that hits hard..
Aaron is such in incredible loss for all of humanity
Ken Tryon
Als Antwort auf Jeremia Kimelman • • •I'm all for making sure creators are rewarded for their work. When third parties are allowed to buy and "own" that output, that creates seriously perverse incentives, like destroying someone who is seen as threatening your financial stake while conducting legal activity. Even if Swartz's actions were questionable, the reaction was out of all proportion. He was crucified to scare away anyone else considering exercising their legal rights.
Did I get that right?
Natasha Nox 🇺🇦🇵🇸
Als Antwort auf Ken Tryon • • •@tryonk "I'm all for making sure creators are rewarded for their work."
This topic keeps making me think about the people who *actually* develop those Space X rockets, among other things…
Ken Tryon
Als Antwort auf Natasha Nox 🇺🇦🇵🇸 • • •