Tim Berners-Lee on developing the web

[Gardner, Thomas]

Since the issue of the commercialization of the web has come up
recently, I felt you all might be interested in this article at cnn.com:

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/06/15/bernerslee.free.ap/index.htm
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'Tim Berners-Lee, who received a ?1 million ($1.2 million) cash prize
for creating the World Wide Web, says he would never have succeeded if
he had charged money for his inventions.

'"If I had tried to demand fees ... there would be no World Wide Web,"
Berners-Lee, 49, said Tuesday at a ceremony for winning the first
Millennium Technology Prize. "There would be lots of small webs."'

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