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by ashraful 4905 days ago
That's a very narrow minded way to look at it. It's difficult to comprehend what he was going through to take such a drastic step. I understand that he was facing a unreasonably long prison sentence for downloading academic papers. As someone points out in another thread, that basically meant he didn't have the freedom to really move forward with his life, even before being sentenced he had lost his freedom. Thats a horrible life to lead. Perhaps he finally lost hope...

His legacy will live on as long as people use Reddit or RSS (or perhaps even anything derived from it), you don't necessarily need to "think" of him. I'm sure a lot of people will be using RSS and Reddit in 6 months.