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While I agree in principle that he needs to shut up and that people need to stop listening to him (he made himself irrelevant as soon as he become a paid Google
by Dirlewanger 7y ago
While I agree in principle that he needs to shut up and that people need to stop listening to him (he made himself irrelevant as soon as he become a paid Google puppet), I don't see a way out of this, a way to make the W3C great again as it were. It's just another item on the laundry list of things Google has its tendrils coiled around and will never let go of.
- ksangeelee 7y agoI don't see why working for Google would make someone irrelevant. There's every reason to think that his choice was a reasoned one. He gave a talk recently, broadcast by the BBC, which he used to raise the issues we have with tracking, click-bait, and misinformation. His audience looked to comprise quite influential people. The fact is he saw the potential his software had; that the combination of server, browser, and markup could revolutionise the world, even before anyone was using it. It would seem foolish to silence someone like that, and careless to advise people not to listen. I'm certainly not saying that we accept his opinions without question, and I'm sure he would agree.