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Tim Berners-Lee must be rolling in his grave.
by Crontab 9y ago
Tim Berners-Lee must be rolling in his grave.
- Ajedi32 9y agoTim Berners-Lee isn't dead. And if you read the article, you'll see that he was actually the one who originally overrode the EFF's objections to publishing a DRM standard in the first place.
- noja 9y agoI think you missed the sarcasm.
- Crontab 9y agoCorrect. I wanted have put a sarcasm tag on my comment but I wasn't sure if it was supported by the W3C and their corporate overlords.
- jancsika 9y agoI read that as the poster being sarcastic-- the logic being that if the W3C made this decision, it must mean that the spirit in which Tim Berners-Lee created the web died some time ago. So Tim Berners-Lee "must be rolling in his grave," quite aside from the fact that he is still physically alive and doing fine.
- nebabyte 9y agoPerhaps people are simply projecting what they think "the spirit in which Tim Berners-Lee created the web" is on the man? Even if he put words to them early on, it's easy for someone to claim lofty ideals when creating something and later realize that's not true to what they believe in. This whole fanboy-heroism is probably a big part of why people don't act for themselves and are left to cry when their 'glorious leaders' "betray" their interests.
- accordionclown 9y agook, fine. but then he has to give the knighthood back. > "the web must remain a universal medium, open to all > and not biasing the information it conveys..." and the macarthur fellowship too, along with its cash. and somehow retract that big flashy olympic ceremony.
- MattSteelblade 9y agoHe signed off on this...
- Crontab 9y agoI know.
- erikj 9y agoNo, he is rolling in dough.