"On 30 April 1993, CERN announced that the World Wide Web would be free to anyone, with no fees due.[24] Coming two months after the announcement that the server implementation of the Gopher protocol was no longer free to use, this produced a rapid shift away from Gopher and towards the Web. "
Re:Germany’s great tuition fees U-turn
by dalke on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @02:33PM
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Nor am I disagreeing. Only pointing out that Linux was also created based on preceding ideas like Unix, MINIX, etc., themselves based on even earlier ideas ... just like HTML comes out of SGML, and has its own long history.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_%28protocol%29
"On 30 April 1993, CERN announced that the World Wide Web would be free to anyone, with no fees due.[24] Coming two months after the announcement that the server implementation of the Gopher protocol was no longer free to use, this produced a rapid shift away from Gopher and towards the Web. "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web
Btw, I'm not disagreeing with you, the European idea of making things for "everybody" got into play there.