Erika Jonietz, Web Inventor Rewarded At Last, Technology Review Weblog, 6/14/04. Joneitz reports that Tim Berners-Lee received the Millennium Technology Prize for his work inventing the web. Excerpt: "Rather than patenting his idea for the World Wide Web, Berners-Lee and colleague Robert Cailliau, working at CERN (the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva), insisted on a license-free technology. If they hadn’t, Berners-Lee says, the Web wouldn’t be the interoperable linkup that it is. 'There would have been a CERN Web, a Microsoft one, there would have been a Digital one, Apple’s HyperCard would have started reaching out Internet roots,“ he said. 'And all of these things would have been incompatible.'" (Source: Brad Delong via Michael Neilsen
Posted by
Garrett at 6/16/2004 02:47:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
