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"When you use the internet it is important that the medium should not be set up with constraints," he said.The internet, said Sir Tim, should be like a blank piece of paper. Just as governments and companies cannot police what people write or draw on that sheet of paper so they should not be restricted from putting the web to their own uses.
"The canvas should be blank," he said
While governments do need some powers to police unacceptable uses of the web; limits should be placed on these powers, he said.
It wasn't much but I didn't care. This guy's a God and when God writes to you it doesn't matter much what he says. I mean it's all huge, whatever it is. You listen.
I asked for permission to quote his,
"Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network."
He said yes, this was acceptable. It was from w3.org. That's all. Just a few words. I printed it out and hung it on the wall in my office.
It's still there.
