A spurious argument - Zuckerberg's money isn't from computer networking. Berner-Lee is essentially the inventor of the wheel while Zuckerberg created a Ferrari.
This analogy is ridiculous. But to follow through with it it should be rewritten like this:
- Tim Berners-Lee invented the wheel, the tires, the diesel engine, the windshield and the electronic that allow to roll the window down by pressing a button, the airbag and the car charger, etc. He made the car safe and usable by anyone. For free. Then he designed how those cars should behave when on the same highway.
- Mark Zuckerberg built a car a century or two after Tim introduced the world to the wonders of high speed travel, painted it blue and charged[0] people for riding it.
[0] That was the plan but in the end he went with social graph thingie to try to be the next advertisement agency.
Obviously that leads on to a question about whether the inventor of an enabling technology such as the web should be significantly remunerated for their work, which society would apparently answer with a resounding no.
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This analogy is ridiculous. But to follow through with it it should be rewritten like this:
- Tim Berners-Lee invented the wheel, the tires, the diesel engine, the windshield and the electronic that allow to roll the window down by pressing a button, the airbag and the car charger, etc. He made the car safe and usable by anyone. For free. Then he designed how those cars should behave when on the same highway.
- Mark Zuckerberg built a car a century or two after Tim introduced the world to the wonders of high speed travel, painted it blue and charged[0] people for riding it.
[0] That was the plan but in the end he went with social graph thingie to try to be the next advertisement agency.
Society ? More like wall-street gamblers.