By contrast… the Queen of England seems to be English
According to this story in the BBC local boy Tim Berners-Lee was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his early 1990s development of HTTP, HTML, and a collection of open-source tools to work with those standards. This distinguishes QE II from George W. She apparently is occupied with something that relates to the life of the average citizen of her country, rather than concentrating on Iraq.
Fazal Majid
July 17, 2004 @ 6:12 pm
You do realize, of course, that Elizabeth II of Saxe-Cobourg-Gotha (a.k.a Windosr) is really German, not English…
David Seruyange
July 17, 2004 @ 11:07 pm
Has anyone explored the fact that because Berners-Lee didn’t try and keep his discoveries (I should say implementations since the ideas preceded him) as some proprietary money scheme but instead made them open and free, that all of us live in a different world today?
I wonder what the world would have been if people had his mentality rather than the S&M (Sales & Marketing) approach to technological advancement.
I wonder what the world would have been if Sony made open standards instead of deliberately hijacking their own success by making it proprietary. Yes, I’m bitter about my mini-disc.
PatrickG
July 19, 2004 @ 2:36 am
Cheesy cheap shot Phil. I expect a better form of cheap shots from you than that when it comes to politics.
Bas Scheffers
July 19, 2004 @ 3:38 am
That is because the Queen is not the leader of this country, she is merely Senior Vice President of Marketing and Customer Relations.
I think you’ll find Tony, like Dubya, is quite preoccupied with Iraq, though.
dave heasman
July 20, 2004 @ 11:56 am
“Elizabeth II of Saxe-Cobourg-Gotha (a.k.a Windosr) is really German, not English”.
Her mother was 100% Scottish.
Bas Scheffers
July 22, 2004 @ 6:12 am
Born in England, raised in England and paid by for by the English tax payers. Trust me, she’s English.
By your definition there would be no such thing as an American then?