
"Fifteen years ago, the Web browser was invented on Christmas day. We look at the
history of the browser,
talk to its creator, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, and
ponder how the software increasingly provokes users to define their own ways of consuming information online." Berners-Lee:
"A lot of people really want to have an arrangement to provide them with the software that is maintained, and to pay for that support. So, there's a place for the commercial software makers. But the open-source community is absolutely essential for the development of the Web. That's very important to maintain a healthy community."