> Very, very few people anywhere got a NeXT system. ...and therefore has little relevance to something dispersed World Wide Obviously untrue, given that the WW

> Very, very few people anywhere got a NeXT system. ...and therefore has little relevance to something dispersed World Wide Obviously untrue, given that the WWW was developed on a NeXT system. > First and foremost, they could afford to give it away for free, since it was produced by cheap disposable labour. I doubt TimBL was starving in a garret when he wrote the first WWW software; it could be given away because CERN had funding that had nothing to do with selling software, especially not software that solved a problem everyone up to that point thought had been solved already (with Gopher and FTP), or would be solved another way entirely (with Xanadu).