Option (b) is of course regulatory capture whereby googbrick innoculate themesleves from any meanigful future competition. They'll definitely try that and will

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?