Do people create because they want a patent?

Some of them do... but some others don’t; like the creator of the www, Tim Berners-Lee, who won the Millennium technology prize.

Pekka Tarjanne, a professor at the Finnish Academy of Technology and chairman of the eight-member international awards committee, underlined the importance of Mr Berners-Lee's decision to never strive to commercialise or patent his contributions to the internet technologies he has developed.

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