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Aaron Swartz 诞辰四十周年

Aaron Swartz 出生于 1986 年 11 月 8 日，上周日原本是他四十岁生日。2011 年他因为从 MIT 网络下载数百万篇 JSTOR 学术论文计划免费公开而遭到逮捕，检方指控他犯有计算机欺诈等罪名，面临最高数十年监禁。2013 年 1 月 11 日他自杀身亡，年仅 26 岁。虽然他已去世 14 年但他的遗产仍然活着。Swartz 与 John Gruber 合作开发了 Markdown，一种简化的纯文本格式系统，允许用户使用普通文本创建结构化文档，不需要私有软件。Markdown 于 2004 年推出，二十多年后成为了最流行的文档和出版格式之一，广泛应用于论坛和维基等社区网站。LLM 产品和开发工具也广泛使用 Markdown。Swartz 还开发了 web.py，协助开发了 RSS 1.0。

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Aaron Swartz Would've Been 40 Today. His 'Legacy Lives On' Says FSF

"Aaron Swartz would have turned forty this year," writes FSF deputy director Sean O'Brien. "November 8 is Aaron Swartz Day, when we remember a pioneer of free software and information sharing whose contributions helped shape the modern internet." The Internet Archive will host a hackathon Sunday in San Francisco celebrating Aaron's Swartz's life "and the projects he worked on, many of which are still going strong today," including SecureDrop, OpenLibrary, and Creative Commons. "We are also spreading the word about projects he inspired," including OnionPress and the EFF's Atlas of Surveillanced

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Join EFF to Celebrate the Life of Aaron Swartz

Join us to celebrate the legacy of Aaron Swartz on Nov. 8, 2026. With the organizers of Aaron Swartz Day , we’re honoring his life with an in-person and remote hackathon. This event is supported by several organizations that carry on his work, including the Internet Archive—which is hosting the in-person event—the Freedom of the Press Foundation , Creative Commons and the Free Law Project . Aaron Swartz was a digital rights champion who believed in the need for an open internet. His life was cut short in 2013, after federal prosecutors charged him under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA)

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