JFKvsNixon Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 He was certainly the inventor, but he was working for CERN, and under most employment contracts, they would have owned the work he did (even if he did it in his own time)... So did they give it away? Taken From Wiki: In 1994, Berners-Lee founded the W3C at MIT. It comprised various companies that were willing to create standards and recommendations to improve the quality of the Web. Berners-Lee made his idea available freely, with no patent and no royalties due. The World Wide Web Consortium decided that its standards should be based on royalty-free technology, so that they could easily be adopted by anyone. Here is the reference for the wiki page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L00b Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 He was certainly the inventor, but he was working for CERN, and under most employment contracts, they would have owned the work he did (even if he did it in his own time)... So did they give it away? Yes, pretty much. Although it was not 'all' CERN and Bernard-Lees. In September 1994, Berners-Lee founded the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with support from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the European Commission. It comprised various companies that were willing to create standards and recommendations to improve the quality of the Web. Berners-Lee made the Web available freely, with no patent and no royalties due. The W3C decided that its standards must be based on royalty-free technology, so they can be easily adopted by anyone. (source). Admittedly, so much of it appears to have been developed collaboratively amongst various academia circles in different countries, from very early on, that no valid patents could ever have been granted on the basic building blocks, due to the sheer volume of public disclosures. I may say in passing: typical of academics (always wanting to be first to publish, as they are), and still to this day. EDIT - damn, ninja'd by JFK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonzo77 Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 No Mister! It's because, SUCCESS IS MONEY ORIENTATED, THERE ARE NO DEVIATIONS! I'm going outside to sit in the garden, this is TOO MUCH! How would you know if you work in a box factory? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tzijlstra Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Just to be clear, the internet was designed as an open communication protocol a long time ago, what Berners-Lee (and MANY others that are often overlooked) did was design additional protocols that enable the transfer of hypertext (in other words, links - known under the acronym HTML) over those protocols and standardising the manner in which text was presented on the internet. What he did was actually not as unique as people make it sound, although his protocol was more preferable than alternatives that were available at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppet2 Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 I'm going on holiday soon. Where are you going, Buxton? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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