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"If I had taken a proprietary control of the Web, then it would never have taken off. People only committed their time to it because they knew it was open, shared: that they could help decide what would happen to it next.. and I wouldn't be raking off 10%!"
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Source: Interview with Scott Laningham, www.ibm.com. August 22, 2006.
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