Aaron, we miss you
It is Aaron Swartz’s birthday, he lived from 11.8.1986 to 1.11.2013.
Even I’m older than him, 26 almost 27, I’m still learning from him. He was in the cutting-edge of technology, and he got state-of-art ideas.
He could be rich easily yet he refused to do so. He spent his time to break down the benefit barrier, which brought him reputation but also great trouble. He spoke for the unsound people, represented the people who made great efforts every day but gained very little. In the same time, a large portion of fruit goes to the pocket of the capitalist.
He was extremely brilliant at a very young age, and what he had done reflects this virtue.
On Internet Hall frame
He was posthumously awarded the American Library Association’s James Madison Award for being an “outspoken advocate for public participation in government and unrestricted access to peer-reviewed scholarly articles.”
From Robert Swartz
Aaron fight tirelessly make information free and keep the Internet free and to academic available for free among other things. He was pursued by bad laws vindictive prosecution and uncaring institutions. And I hope we can all move forward to change these things so that the tragedy occurred to Aaron doesn’t occur to anyone else.