[open-science] open access perils? (#RIP @aaronscwarz)

Sat Jan 12 15:16:39 UTC 2013

On Jan 12, 2013, at 7:04 AM, Thomas Kluyver <takowl at gmail.com> wrote:

> n 12 January 2013 14:14, Paola Di Maio <paola.dimaio at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Bradley Manning
>> Julian Assange
>> Aaron Scwarz
>> 
> 
> I'd be very cautious about building lists like this. Take Assange, for
> example: is he resisting persecution by a justice system used maliciously,
> or is he using Wikileaks as cover to dodge rape charges in Sweden? Putting
> him on a list of open access martyrs implies support for his position,
> which I personally wouldn't be comfortable doing at present.

I am with Thomas. The news about Swartz is devastating, but no one knows why, and will probably never *really* know why. Conflating unrelated things may be just as bad as not connecting related ones.

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Puneet Kishor