large amounts of money for some persons?
TBL: If it’s good, people will want to buy it, and money is they way they vote on what they want. I believe that system is the best one we have, so if it’s right, sure people are going to make money. People will make money building software, selling information, and more importantly doing all kinds of “real” business, which happens to work much better because the Web is there to make their work easier. The web is like paper. It doesn’t constrain what you use it for: you have to be able to use it for all of the information flow of normal life. My priority is to see it develop and evolve in a way which will hold us in good stead for a long future. If I, and CERN, hadn’t had that attitude, there probably wouldn’t be a web now. Now, if someone tries to monopolize the Web, for example pushes proprietary variations on network protocols, then that would make me unhappy.
