Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 2nd Mar 2007 21:03 UTC
World wide web father Tim Berners-Lee told politicians on Thursday that it's critical to shield his seminal innovation from control by a single company or country. A top priority for policymakers going forward must be "making sure the web itself is the blank sheet, the blank canvas, something that does not constrain the innovation that's around the corner," the knighted engineer told a US House of Representatives panel that writes internet and telecommunications laws.
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2005-07-09
Must sting a bit to see the web evolving to where there is such a large share of it's information being bottled up in proprietary plug-ins.