RE: a real Net scandal

=?iso-8859-1?Q?H=E5kon?= Wium Lie (howcome@opera.com)
Thu, 30 Dec 1999 03:10:47 +0100 (Romance Standard Time)


Also sprach Gavin Thomas Nicol:

> > James Fallows writes, "Tim Berners-Lee did not get rich.=20
>=20
> Neither did I, or many others I know. Then again, I think
> that many of the best technical ideas weren't accepted until
> way too late anyway. It was a long, hard battle for XML...
> hells teeth, I remember being laughed at in Boston for=20
> espousing the notion that tag explosion was the best thing=20
> since sliced bread (remember Hakon and Bert?).

I don't remember laughing at someone (perhaps with someone), but I
readily admit to being in the less-is-more camp on this one. But who
cares, none of us got rich...

Cheers,

-h&kon

Chief Technology Officer Opera Software
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