- From: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 08:14:51 -0400
- To: Aaron Swartz <me@aaronsw.com>
- Cc: www-archive@w3.org
No, they did not try to sell it it as far as I am aware. There was a certain amount of agonizing that CERN didn't really have a story about what to do about spinning out technology. There were some arguing that the IPR should be kept by CERN, but no real plans as to what to do with it. Hey, if they had been MIT they might have encouraged me to spin it out as a startup, with the help of some experienced people who had done it before, and well, maybe the world would have just waited 17 years as it did for RSA. I am sure in fact a bunch of competing systems would have ended up without a single interoperable space. Tim On 2009-08 -05, at 21:00, Aaron Swartz wrote: > According to http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2008/11/what_might_have_been_4.php > the head of CERN claimed that CERN tried to put the Web up for sale > shortly after it was developed. I don't remember reading anything > about this in _Weaving the Web_ or the usual sources; is it true? >
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