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This is a clear sign that the W3C now is hostage of the big corporations.. say goodbye to the dream and vision created by the founders of the Web, and what the

This is a clear sign that the W3C now is hostage of the big corporations.. say goodbye to the dream and vision created by the founders of the Web, and what the WWW was meant to be for us all: a democratic place of freedom, education and shareing to all the world.. a world without frontiers, without borders.. infinite as it could be.. All i see now is the corporate internet.. people may not remember this but AOL and the like tried to create privates corporate internet's and lose in the long term.. the world was too big to be contained.. to be controlled.. This is the beginning of the end of what internet was supposed to be?

parasubvert 13y ago
I think you completely have missed the historic charter and nature of the W3C. It always was a pay to play organization, where they highly encouraged corporate or institutional members and dissuaded individual membership. It's very, very different from (say) the IETF. The intent was to recognize the Web world for what it was: filled with competitive interests with no interest on the integrity of the architecture that had been created. The W3C was a way to bring their engineers together to save the Web from the various marketing departments that were escalating an arms race of proprietary browser features. It was to create a legitimate channel to drive agreements across competitors without antitrust concerns. It didn't entirely succeed, only somewhat. But this decision is consistent with its history. The W3C is only a reflection of its members.