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Re:American Equity by wu-ikkyu on Monday November 27, 2017 @02:56PM (#15790622)
Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, worked hard, and yet he still gave his hard work to the public.
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Re:American Equity by gozur88 on Monday November 27, 2017 @03:09PM (#15790737)
Did he? I thought he was working for CERN at the time, meaning the public (or the European public, anyway) already owned the protocol he produced.
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Re:American Equity by wu-ikkyu on Monday November 27, 2017 @03:23PM (#15790874)
According to this [1], it was never an official CERN project, but rather a side project of his.

“Had the technology been proprietary, and in my total control, it would probably not have taken off. You can’t propose that something be a universal space and at the same time keep control of it.”

[1]https://webfoundation.org/about/vision/history-of-the-web/

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Re:American Equity by kamaal on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @12:49AM (#15794761)
You always make lesser profits on the tools, than the profits you make by building products using the tools.

The guy who sells tables and chairs is likely to make more money than the guy who sells nails and hammers.

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