Re:Sir Tim Berners-Lee Stars in Olympic Opening Ceremony
by derleth on Saturday July 28, 2012 @08:27AM
(#4305383)
> Very, very few people anywhere got a NeXT system. ...and therefore has little relevance to something dispersed World Wide
Obviously untrue, given that the WWW was developed on a NeXT system.
> First and foremost, they could afford to give it away for free, since it was produced by cheap disposable labour.
I doubt TimBL was starving in a garret when he wrote the first WWW software; it could be given away because CERN had funding that had nothing to do with selling software, especially not software that solved a problem everyone up to that point thought had been solved already (with Gopher and FTP), or would be solved another way entirely (with Xanadu).
Obviously untrue, given that the WWW was developed on a NeXT system.
> First and foremost, they could afford to give it away for free, since it was produced by cheap disposable labour.
I doubt TimBL was starving in a garret when he wrote the first WWW software; it could be given away because CERN had funding that had nothing to do with selling software, especially not software that solved a problem everyone up to that point thought had been solved already (with Gopher and FTP), or would be solved another way entirely (with Xanadu).