R.I.P. Aaron Swartz

At age 14, Aaron Swartz was co-author of the RSS 1.0 specification. He founded a Y-Combinator startup Infogami, which was later merged into Reddit, and for this he is sometimes listed as a third co-founder of Reddit. In 2011, from the MIT campus for a brief period he unintentionally disrupted JSTOR, an online academic publishing service, downloading papers which ought to by right be freely available. His minor transgression brought prosecution by the US Justice Department, indicting him on charg