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Agreed. Any Turing Award laureate, let alone the first female Turing Award laureate, deserves a black banner

• scott31 6y ago
  > Any Turing Award laureate deserves a black banner Except for Tim Berners-Lee, who tries to make the web a proprietary platform
  • kitd 6y ago
    Ok, I'll bite. Why?
    • scott31 6y ago
      I don't know why he is doing that, probably money
      • kitd 6y ago
        I meant why do you think he's trying to make the web proprietary. AFAICS he's doing the exact opposite: https://contractfortheweb.org/ https://contractfortheweb.org/
        • scott31 6y ago
          https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14720591 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14720591
          • kitd 6y ago
            So no black banner because you can't torrent someone else's hard work.
  • dang 6y ago
    "Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html