You have a time machine in your garage

[smudgedj]

The problem being, if you patented WWW then you'd make it entirely useless and it would never have taken off.

Not really, say £1 per 1000 pages or whatever, depends how you consider yourself 'well off' if that's what we are aiming for.

The world wide web was only adopted as a standard by everybody because it was free and unrestricted. Before this, communities were much more gated, like AOL used to be, and used whatever protocol they wanted.

That's the kicker about technology in computing. If you invent a new protocol and patent it, nobody will use it and you'll make no money. If you don't patent it, you make no money.

Computing is a pretty level playing field which is why there are so many rags to riches stories. Programmers cannot stand licensing restrictions and they'll reinvent the wheel to get around them.

Yeah I can agree with that. I'll fire off an email to Tim and see what he thinks about copyrighting WWW.

 

[nelsons willie]

i live in a flat

 

[MCFCinUSA]

i live in a flat

so do I, but I've also got a garage

(but when I first was over here used to call it a "garridge" which confused a lot of 'em)

 

[pauldominic]

How do you patent the internet?

I was wondering the same. He could patent one part like TCP/IP.

 

[Mr White]

I'd go back a couple of hours. The Chinese I heard earlier was shit. Waste of a tenner.

You paid to hear chinese?

Haha, I still struggle with my phone.

 

[XxRachXx]

i don't have a garage :(

 

[Bigg Bigg Blue]

i don't have a garage :(

Don't worry love, I've got a double one that you can share. :-)

 

[XxRachXx]

i don't have a garage :(

Don't worry love, I've got a double one that you can share. :-)

Thanks where we off to in the time machine then :O

 

[Bigg Bigg Blue]

i don't have a garage :(

Don't worry love, I've got a double one that you can share. :-)

Thanks where we off to in the time machine then :O

Where would you like to go?

 

[XxRachXx]

Don't worry love, I've got a double one that you can share. :-)

Thanks where we off to in the time machine then :O

Where would you like to go?

to the times of dinosaurs ...