Comment by gozur88
9 years ago
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.
9 years ago
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.
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/