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The article says they will be kicked out if they don’t abide by the contract. We’ll see if that actually happens.

• larnmar 7y ago
  Almost all the points are deliberately left so vague that almost anyone can claim that they’re abiding with them. A goodly number of points are also left so vague that almost anyone can claim that their opponent isn’t abiding by them, providing a perfect environment for anarcho-tyranny.
• harry8 7y ago
  "We were excited to support their stated goals but have now resigned as we disgaree strongly with the way they have changed their focus and departed from sense to something wholly unworkable which makes us all sad." --googbrick 2 sweeps: 1) How many of those words will actually be meaningfully different when their statements are released? 2) When will they pull the trigger to make that happen?
  • harry8 7y ago
    Option (b) is of course regulatory capture whereby googbrick innoculate themesleves from any meanigful future competition. They'll definitely try that and will embrace totally if they can make it work in some financially meanigful way in their favour. Does Berners-Lee have any form in policy? Did he have genuine inventive insight or just right place right time permissive license? These are genuine questions I'm asking to which I don't have answers - maybe he's saved the web before, and his inventive insight was utterly brilliant for all I know?