Most larger companies now see that for the market to grow, Web infrastructure must be royalty-free.
Tim Berners-LeeWhen you go onto the internet, if you really rummage around randomly then how do you hope to find something of any of value?
Tim Berners-LeeOne way to think about the magnitude of the changes to come is to think about how you went about your business before powerful Web search engines. You probably wouldn't have imagined that a world of answers would be available to you in under a second. The next set of advances will have an different effect, but similar in magnitude.
Tim Berners-Lee