Thanks for introducting me to the name Bassel Khartabil. A quick skim of his Wikipedia page gives me the impression he was the Aaron Schwartz of Syria. But Bassel was murdered directly by the government of his country, rather than psy-opped into doing it for them, as Aaron was. In both cases, a tragic loss.
100% get off Github already!
I moved all my orgs off guthub when they blocked our work on Bassel Khartabil (first investor in first Bitcoin miner)
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Yes Aaron was cool. Both were Creative Commons connected. I worked most w Aaron though on openlibrary.org
You think MIT wipp ever do justice to Aaron or will they just coopt his name eventually and act like that makes it all better?
I knew of Aaron's CC connections, but as I say, I never had the pleasure and sadness of learning about Bassel until seeing your post.
In my experience, modern institutions don't admit their mistakes. But if Aaron's dream (and mine) of wresting control of scholarship away from corporatists and their professional-managerial lackeys is ever successful, then we might finally get justice for his memory.
amazing
btw there is not much issue w access outside of usa, particularly china thanks to scihub :)
True that. I recently discovered this project;
In many ways we are winning. But the scholars are still labouring in the academic sweatshops, and that too needs to change.
Good point