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This is interesting. MIT is playing hardball with people's jobs and W3C assets. W3C is playing hardball MIT's reputation. I think the fact it's reached the p

This is interesting. MIT is playing hardball with people's jobs and W3C assets. W3C is playing hardball MIT's reputation. I think the fact it's reached the point they're publically talking about this means they're is very little chance MIT is going to be backing down. The real question for me is would US officals allow W3C to move aboard. Could they prevent it? I have a feeling MIT's lawyers have thought alot of this out already.

fabrice_d 4y ago
The W3C always had "branches" in US, EU and Asia. What could be at stake here is to not have an entity in the US anymore.
- that_guy_iain 4y ago
  And I'm wondering if the US goverment which is a bit of a control freak, would allow there not to be any W3C under their control? Especially, if the major players in the tech world are US entities. I could see this just breaking up and ending the W3C more than the W3C having leverage.
  - google234123 4y ago
    Why would the US gov care about something that doesn't matter?
    - that_guy_iain 4y ago
      W3C does matter to an extent. Which is why so many mega corps pay people to work on their stuff.
justin66 4y ago
> W3C is playing hardball {with} MIT's reputation. It's more like softball, if we're being honest. 99.9% of the public doesn't care, and of the small portion of the public who is familiar with both MIT and W3C... I'll just predict that nobody is going to show up and protest, or bring torches and pitchforks, or anything because of twitter threads. Nobody is going to cut MIT's funding because of this, and they'd have to really cut in order to make MIT reconsider dumping what must be a money-loser for them already. Really playing hardball with MIT's reputation would involve getting Tim Berners-Lee in front of the mainstream press to talk about this. > MIT is playing hardball with people's jobs and W3C assets. That is hardball.
- that_guy_iain 4y ago
  > It's more like softball, if we're being honest. 99.9% of the public doesn't care, and of the small portion of the public who is familiar with both MIT and W3C... I'll just predict that nobody is going to show up and protest, or bring torches and pitchforks, or anything because of twitter threads. Nobody is going to cut MIT's funding because of this, and they'd have to really cut in order to make MIT reconsider dumping what must be a money-loser for them already. The thing is, the 0.1% that do care are the people MIT care about what they think. MIT don't care what most people think. They're not giving them money, they're not giving them status, they're providing MIT with nothing. Which is kind of why those people don't care. But the people do care are giving them money and status and other stuff.
weinzierl 4y ago
> "The real question for me is would US officals allow W3C to move aboard." I think moving abroad would simply massively backfire on W3C - it would turn them from an org struggling to stay relevant into a completely irrelevant org immediately.

fabrice_d 4y ago

The W3C always had "branches" in US, EU and Asia. What could be at stake here is to not have an entity in the US anymore.

that_guy_iain 4y ago
And I'm wondering if the US goverment which is a bit of a control freak, would allow there not to be any W3C under their control? Especially, if the major players in the tech world are US entities. I could see this just breaking up and ending the W3C more than the W3C having leverage.
- google234123 4y ago
  Why would the US gov care about something that doesn't matter?
  - that_guy_iain 4y ago
    W3C does matter to an extent. Which is why so many mega corps pay people to work on their stuff.

justin66 4y ago

> W3C is playing hardball {with} MIT's reputation. It's more like softball, if we're being honest. 99.9% of the public doesn't care, and of the small portion of the public who is familiar with both MIT and W3C... I'll just predict that nobody is going to show up and protest, or bring torches and pitchforks, or anything because of twitter threads. Nobody is going to cut MIT's funding because of this, and they'd have to really cut in order to make MIT reconsider dumping what must be a money-loser for them already. Really playing hardball with MIT's reputation would involve getting Tim Berners-Lee in front of the mainstream press to talk about this. > MIT is playing hardball with people's jobs and W3C assets. That is hardball.

that_guy_iain 4y ago
> It's more like softball, if we're being honest. 99.9% of the public doesn't care, and of the small portion of the public who is familiar with both MIT and W3C... I'll just predict that nobody is going to show up and protest, or bring torches and pitchforks, or anything because of twitter threads. Nobody is going to cut MIT's funding because of this, and they'd have to really cut in order to make MIT reconsider dumping what must be a money-loser for them already. The thing is, the 0.1% that do care are the people MIT care about what they think. MIT don't care what most people think. They're not giving them money, they're not giving them status, they're providing MIT with nothing. Which is kind of why those people don't care. But the people do care are giving them money and status and other stuff.

weinzierl 4y ago

> "The real question for me is would US officals allow W3C to move aboard." I think moving abroad would simply massively backfire on W3C - it would turn them from an org struggling to stay relevant into a completely irrelevant org immediately.