Saturday, March 14, 2009

Tim Berners-Lee: Quote for March 14, 2009

Software companies should take more responsibility for security holes, especially in browsers and e-mail clients. There are some straightforward things the industry should be doing right now to fix things, and I don't know why they haven't been done yet.
On March 13, 1989, while working at the Cern Nuclear Research Facility in Geneva Switzerland, Tim Berners-Lee submitted a plan to management on how to better monitor data coming from research labs. That proposal turned out to be a plan for the creation of the World Wide Web. Read the original document that changed the world: Information Management: A Proposal.
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