Tuesday January 15th 2013, 1:17 am
Filed under: Aasw,poetic justice,Rogue content editor,Uncategorized
Filed under: Aasw,poetic justice,Rogue content editor,Uncategorized
Remembering his own past correspondence with Aaron:
On hearing of his death Babbage (G.F.) reviewed a number of e-mails he exchanged with Mr Swartz in 2000-01. The boy was in his mid-teens but his prose, taut and to the point, was as mature as his precocious mind. He wanted to know where your correspondent obtained book data for a price-comparison site. He even suggested a collaboration, regretfully unconsummated, that later became the nucleus of the Open Library.
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