On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Praveen A <prav...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2013/1/18 ag@gmail <amarendra.godb...@gmail.com>: >> So do I read it something like this: While walking on the street, I found an >> unlocked door to a bar and walked in, grabbed a bottle of vodka, gulped it >> down, and walked out. I was caught, since I was 17. >> >> Now blame the bar for having its door unlocked or the person who forgot the >> bottle of vodka on the table. Don't every utter anything about underage >> drinking... (though it is illegal). Not exact, but you get the idea. > > The point is, MIT kept the network open as well thought out policy. It > is MIT culture not to restrict their network. Do you not see the > proportion as an issue? Agreed, it is rude on Aaron's part to have > misused the access, but does it deserve 35 years in jail? Also > remember JSTOR did not want to prosecute Aaron. > >> If JSTOR should be free - one should put efforts to gather those many >> articles on their own. Why steal? Another thing - part of JSTOR fees goes >> towards paying the authors of those articles, from what I read. By wanting >> it for free, you also deny rightful money to the very people who put their >> ideas on paper. I consider this abuse of the term Free... Gandhi did not >> take away salt from the British, it was rightfully given to those who owned >> it. In this case, the papers were not rightfully Aaron's or of public... > > Copying is not stealing and Aaron did not distribute the articles he > copied. The people who wrote the papers are already paid. > > "Another thing to consider is that academic writers are paid through > salaries and grants; they aren't paid (not directly, anyway) for the > publication of their work. The whole system of compensation for > academic content is very different from commercial publishing. When > you pay for a JSTOR article online, none of the money goes to the > author, it goes to the publisher." > > http://www.theawl.com/2011/08/was-aaron-swartz-stealing > >> We don't need more Aarons, for sure. >> >> YMMV. > > Yes, I believe we need more Aarons and that is why I'm talking about > his work with as many people as possible. > > From the same article, > > "Swartz is being charged with hacker crimes, not > copyright-infringement crimes, because he didn't actually distribute > any documents, plus JSTOR didn't even want him prosecuted. These [...]
I have read all articles about him, and still maintain my belief - Robin Hoods like him do more harm than good. Probably Free Software needs folks like him, not Open Source. ;-) -ag _______________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List
