Well formatted does not mean beautifully formatted. There are principles and rules of formatting. There should be consistency, rigor, character, attention to details.

One should see and read well formatted code as if from an aircraft, from above. An error or deficiency becomes obvious from the first sight.

is well formatted code.

It could be just an attempt to lower prices on the oil and gas market.

When a large organization gets involved into a software project it changes the project too.

French Republic can and probably will do a lot of good stuff for Linux community too. It will not just use it for free and enjoy it.

French civilization is universal. It brought metric system to the world, ideals of Great revolution, etc. When it starts moving, the word watches. I expect much more form this initiative.

It is on the front page of the http://imgur.com/ too.

http://i.imgur.com/Xp2q6up.jpg

Why did I buy a large wide display? 20 centimeters from the left and from the right are empty. A narrow long column of the text, like a pillar, is on the screen.

The French king Louis XVI wrote in his diary on the day when the Great French Revolution began: "Rien." It means: nothing. It seems to be one more quiet uneventful day of the year 1789.

I do not mean that the commercial approach is bad. It made such giants as Microsoft, Apple, IBM, etc.

But the WWW was much much bigger, it changed the human civilization. It made the Internet what it is now.

It was an scientific exploit, simple and elegant, equal to the ones of Nicolaus Copernicus, René Descartes, Dmitri Mendeleev, etc. And it was also produced by a scientist-engineer.

Computing and networking research was going on everywhere in the world. But the grand idea, which made it a global, international phenomenon, was generated by an engineer-physicist at the CERN, in Europe. And the CERN administration wisely and bravely released the WWW into the public domain.

It did not happen in the USA. And it is well documented. The USA was and is playing the important role. But it was simply not the place where it happened. And I do not believe it could happen. It would be patented, put in a silo, sold in small pieces.

From the topic article: "...pushing to shift the power dynamics of the World Wide Web away from a US-centric model for years."

The point was that it did not begin as "US-centric", that it was non-US from the very beginning. It was international, including the USA, that is why it is called Internet.

Are you sure?

It seems it started in 20s century: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirephoto

In any case, it was also kind of an Internet.

My point was that it became really popular, en masse, globally, after the invention (and release into public domain) at the CERN.

Everyone can and does make a mistake from time to time. There should be a serious redressment and reconfiguration of the current NSA's practices. And the USA should continue to be a part of the international Internet community.

Not an exceptional part, but, perhaps, substantial or even leading.

Another BBS (Bulletin board system) user.

Millions and millions of the websites cannot be wrong.