be rich?" As Cailliau recalled, his initial reaction was "Well, it helps, no?"27 That was the incorrect response. "He apparently didn't care about that," Cailliau realized. "Tim's not in it for the money. He accepts a much wider range of hotel-room facilities than a CEO would."28 Instead Berners-Lee insisted that the Web protocols should be made available freely, shared openly, and put forever in the public domain. After all, the whole point of the Web, and the essence of its design, was to promote sharing and collaboration. CERN issued a document declaring that it "relinquishes all intellectual property rights to this code, both source and binary form, and permission is granted for anyone to use, duplicate, modify, and redistribute it."29 Eventually CERN joined forces with Richard Stallman and adopted his GNU General Public License. The result was one of the grandest free and open-source projects in history. That approach reflected Berners-Lee's self-effacing style. He was averse to
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