Keeping with my Tim Berners-Lee theme, I was curious to see what people believed would have happened if he had patent the web. I was expecting some very large dollar amount to pop up but instead found this article which explained how different the world may be if the web was patented. In fact, if it had been patented, it would just now be coming out of patent coverage. The author of the article, Mike Masnick, feels the patenting of the web would change our lives all the way down to smart phones and a possible non existent Google. It is very interesting to think of the possible outcomes of the web being patented and I think this article is a good read so check it out!
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