Greetings All, Recently I was watching documentary on *The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz *(though, late but never).
In the documentary, Aaron said many times that *'information should be free'*. What exactly did he mean by this? Why most science journals or PhD holders or research fellows don't publish their work free of cost? (Obviously, why should one publish his/her work free of cost for which (s)he worked tirelessly or burned midnight oil) Seen few journals for my cousin's research work and all were paid :( Why don't libraries or particular universities publish their research fellows work for free of cost? It means they are looking for business and not for serving to society (actually they meant for the latter purpose). If FB and Google are providing their services to everyone free of cost. Then on the other side they are collecting our data and selling it to marketing companies for profit making so it means there is a business in this deal. But what was his theory behind this statement: *'information should be free'.* What I perceived from this is: He wanted to educate and improve the society by spreading knowledge and that too free of cost. Anyways, respect to that young boy who sacrificed his life at such a young age for such a beautiful thought (when mostly among us do not know what exactly they want to do in their life). He will be missed for sure. RIP Aaron. :( Kindly shed some light on the aforesaid doubt and do not hesitate to notify me if I am wrong at some point. Thank you. P.S. : If you think this is not an apt place/group to ask such doubt then you are free to ignore this email. -- *Regards, Sahil ModGill* _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
