从赚钱角度来看,技术标准的创始人和推进者的观点并不重要,甚至往往是一种有害的分散注意力和浪费时间的东西。1993年互联网浏览器出来后,研究讨论 http 协议的技术细节让人觉得自己很 cool ,有做正事的感觉。之后关于 xml, semantic web 等学术讨论和夸大宣传,也让很多人有赶时髦的成就感。但其实这都不重要,过程实际上也枯燥无趣。重要的是发现行业的垄断者,1995年七月微软推出可以支持 internet 的 window 95后就买 msft 股票。然后躺平,不瞎折腾。Tim Berners Lee 发明 www 很伟大,但为其马首是瞻,对于发财和改变自己的处境基本无效。
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“In 1994, Berners-Lee founded the W3C at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
It comprised various companies that were willing to create standards and recommendations to improve the quality of the Web.
Berners-Lee made his idea available freely, with no patent and no royalties due.
The World Wide Web Consortium decided that its standards should be based on royalty-free technology, so that they easily could be adopted by anyone.”
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