"How," John Kerry asked a committee of the US Senate (to which he himself would later be elected) in 1971, "do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?"
That question was among the first that came to mind last week when I heard that [Aaron] Swartz had hanged himself in his Brooklyn apartment.
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I sincerely hope that Swartz will go down in history as the last casualty of the war over "intellectual property" -- a 300-year war that, or all practical purposes, ended years ago in triumph for the forces of freedom and a total rout of those who rely, for their fortunes, on the power of the state to extract rent on people’s use of their own minds and bodies.
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