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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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