Thanks. I do know that and admit that this is not the best of examples to make my point, but hacking into computer systems because one individual thinks the contents should be ‘free’ is just wrong.
expat, this kid stopped the online piracy act from passing. He also killed obama’s killswitch for the internet that would have allowed him to shut us down should HE deem it necessary. He developed RSS. He developed web.py, a web structure now used by many business...among other leaps in software and programming.
And he didn’t charge a penny for any of it. He tried to use his talent to make the world a better place. He started this at the ripe old age of thirteen. He was an idealist, not a communist. He was a giver, not a taker. But his love and his obsession was computers and how they could bring knowledge and culture to the whole world.
I said before, he doesn’t fit in a niche. He was more of an explorer. Those who had political motives used him. Those who didn’t admired him. He belonged to nobody and owed nobody anything.
He beat the obama administration TWICE. They made an example of him by not simply prosecuting him, but by persecuting him, upping the ante when all charges SHOULD have been dropped while knowing he was deeply clinically depressed. They did it maliciously and they might as well have shot him because either way he was a dead man walking.
He didn’t deserve it and he does not deserve the malevolence directed at him that I have seen.
He wasn’t evil. Naive, maybe. But evil? No.