According to Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, is the openness of this technique is the reason for the success. He does not agree with the leader of the UN organization, Wipo, which finds that users licentiegeld would have to pay.
The chief of the UN organization for intellectual property rights, Wipo, Francis Gurry, stated recently that Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the web, that technique would have had to patent. Users had licentiegeld have to pay to get access to the web, and that money could then be used to invest in the technology, according to Gurry.
“That is one of the worst informed and the most incredible comments that I have seen in a long time have heard,” says Tim Berners-Lee compared Tweakers.net at the RSA Conference in London, where the scientist later on Thursday, a keynote. “I was amazed. The web exists thanks to openness.”
When Berners-Lee invented the web coined, it was another hypertexttechnologie popular: Gopher. “The technique grew much faster than the web,” said Berners-Lee. Gopher was developed by the university of Minnesota, which at one point announced that commercial users may licentiegeld had to pay. “When people were suddenly interested in the web,” said Berners-Lee.
While the university of Minnesota the right of ownership of a Gopher for held, gave CERN the technology behind the web understand free. That was the key to success, argues Berners-Lee. “Even companies with small budgets developed for the web,” says the scientist, who is currently the head of the W3C, the organization that the development of the web track. Moreover, doubts Berners-Lee or the web or patented had may be.
Openness is also important for the layer underneath the web, the internet itself, says Berners-Lee. Also governments should there is not too much to interfere. “If the authorities determine who is or isn’t has access to the internet, is that dangerous,” he says. “For example, if a family of the internet is shut down because one of the family music has been stolen.” This refers Berners-Lee, among more legislation in France, where auteursrechtenschenders after several violations of the internet can be shut down.