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As regular readers of this column know, there's still a battle going on over whether standards should be FRAND or restrict...

Beyond the fact that you are using it to read these words, the Web has undeniably had a major impact on a large part of the world's p...

As I noted recently, net neutrality is back in the spotlight, so I thought it would be useful - and maybe entertaining - to look at an an...

Last year Techdirt wrote about the almost unbelievable Meltwater decision in the UK, where the courts said that viewing a Web page withou...

Not content with inventing the Web and then giving it away, Tim Berners-Lee remains highly active in warning about the threats the Intern...

Here's a rather wonderful document by Tim Bray, one of the key people in the XML world, and someone who evidently knows everyone else t...

Not much, mind you, but given that I commented when it was on the way down, it's only fair to point out moves in the other direction: A...

Fascinating : In 1978, I.B.M. was beginning to design its PC, which was a radical break for a company that had until then resisted open arch...

Although people are rightly suspicous of Google's huge power these days, it is also important to remember those actions that are praisew...

Thanks , Tim .

The Web was invented by Tim Berners-Lee while he was working at the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva. Now the boys and...

The World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C ) is the sticky stuff that holds the Web together; without it, the whole caboodle would slowly come unst...

I've already written about how the "commons" meme is on the rise, with all that this implies in terms of co-operation, sharin...