]
] Both Berners-Lee and and Vixie have contributed mightily
] to the internet; they have deservedly accumulated
] enormous techno-karma.
]
] But no matter how many karma points they may have, they
] are repeating the behavior that turned the innovative
] telephone companies of the early 20th century into the
] stodgy telcos that fought competition and innovation at
] every turn from the early 1900's up through the 1970's.