Remembering Aaron Swartz: Commons man

Post by hobbyhacker » Tue, Jan 15, 2013, 10:51 AM UTC

kragen wrote: post #20

lkgj wrote: post #16

It's like you're all almost purposely going out of your way to misrepresent what Aaron was. He should be remembered as a well-meaning, curious dreamer, someone who later in his short life wanted to organize others politically for the public good. An unusually sensitive everyman. He's being portrayed instead as a technical genius or some other kind of elite. He always sought to be involved in technology, but he never…

I worked with Aaron on the old watchdog.net. I found his technical judgment to be consistently superior to mine, which is something that I can say of very few other people. Tim Berners-Lee said Aaron was a mentor to him, rather than the other way around. One of the core Django team said Aaron started the whole magic-removal effort, and that Django was much better as a result. Aaron was also the first person I remembe…

Post by wglb » Tue, Jan 15, 2013, 8:42 PM UTC

temuze wrote: post #7

It's humbling to be in my twenties and read about someone who had done so much at an even younger age.