Most larger companies now see that for the market to grow, Web infrastructure must be royalty-free.
Tim Berners-LeeThe more you enter, the more you become locked in. Your social-networking site becomes a central platform - a closed silo of content, and one that does not give you full control over your information in it. The more this kind of architecture gains widespread use, the more the Web becomes fragmented, and the less we enjoy a single, universal information space.
Tim Berners-LeeEverybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split.
Tim Berners-LeeWeb applications will become more and more ubiquitous throughout our human environment, with walls, automobile dashboards, refrigerator doors all serving as displays giving us a window onto the Web.
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