Cern ‘Open Sourced’ the Web
Sir Tim Berners-Lee was recently interviewed by the BBC to mark today’s 15th anniversary of the day that Cern put the web’s code into the public domain.
Berners-Lee indicated that making the web free to use had a vital role in spreading its use worldwide. However, the decision by physics laboratory to release the web code into the public domain was not a straightforward one. The difficult part was explaining the true nature of what the web was going to be and that this was going to take off and it was a really big thing. Therefore, Cern couldn’t hold on to it and “the best thing to do was to give it away.”
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