• Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Steve Huffman is pissing all over Aaron Schwartz’s grave, and completely abandoning the ideals that was once a foundation of Reddit. Reddit was originally open source, Aaron died in 2013, and by 2017, Reddit had abandoned the open source / community philosophy entirely.

    Never forget Aaron Schwartz.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

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      2 years ago

      I have to believe Aaron would be leading the charge to Lemmy if he were still alive today.

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      2 years ago

      I remember when Ellen Pao was the nightmare and spez wasn’t yet perceived as the fuck he actually is. Different times, I guess the devil you know is better sometimes. Otherwise you get spez, fuck spez.

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      2 years ago

      Intellectual property law is such a farce. It’s wild that he was on the hook for THAT hefty of a prison sentence just because he downloaded academic articles which should on principle automatically be in the public domain.