The web setting out as something which was universal, something which anybody could use, I felt was very important. It's no good having something which will run on any platform if, in fact, there is a proprietary hold on it.

— Tim Berners-Lee, Fresh Air (1996)

Source: https://www.npr.org/1996/02/07/1108828/the-creator-of-the-world-wide-web-tim-berners-lee

Also quoted by Julian Ring in NPR, April 2023.

Topics: open source