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profit and social responsibility don't go together. Google has every reason to be interested in a locked-down web. That way it could be sure of all the revenue
by anoncow 14y ago
profit and social responsibility don't go together. Google has every reason to be interested in a locked-down web. That way it could be sure of all the revenue that youtube movie premieres would bring. Sadly, a more responsible way of doing the same thing will not be as profitable.
- acabal 14y agoI totally agree. But w3c should be standing up for the open web, not the profit motives of its sponsors. If they're going to start transparently considering whatever restrictive practices their sponsors demand, then they become nothing more than an industry interest group versus what they ostensibly are now, which is a group that's at least partially community-driven.
- justincormack 14y agoThe W3C has always alas been sponsor led, and is a poor organisation, and not what the web should have.
- rayiner 14y agoW3C is an industry consortium of for profit companies. It is not some utopian political organization.