Billionaire philanthropy can't make up for bad things they did to get the money in the first place, so don't let it buy your good opinion.

Arguing that the motive for DRM is not about illegal copying, but really about control of legal markets.

Aaron Swartz: for rich people to mess with the US school system is nothing new.

I think it is going too far to claim that the main or only purpose of the school system is to make people obedient. Parents around the world make sacrifices so their children can study, and if this were nothing but a way to keep them down, parents would have learned that by now and stopped.

Research needs steadily increasing funding, not flashy "moonshots".

Do you have the right to stop a drone from hovering over your yard?