Anyone know if Tim Berners-Lee has an npub? I'm reading Weaving The Web and Nostr is very aligned with the original goals of the World Wide Web: "I use the general term URI to emphasize the importance of universality, and of the persistence of information" With events being at multiple relays and not at a specific relay (HTTP server in the case of the Web), there is opportunity for greater persistence. There isn't a dependency upon another server remaining the same, which will often break hyperlinks.

"Live Not by Lies" — Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1974)

"Recognizing the value of this scheme in future e-commerce transactions, Shamir and his coinventors applied for a patent. But in early 1987, the patent office informed the cryptographers that, by order of the U.S. Army, their invention was now an official secret..." —Crypto by Stephen Levy p. 166

The "Live Not By Lies" documentary series is pretty good.

Has there ever been a case in which a free software project trademarked a term entirely for defensive purpose and then released all exclusivity via a license? For example if the term JavaScript were trademarked prior to Oracle's claim, and then released for all to use. The closest seems to be Linux, however even such a term will require a sublicense for several types of use, for example Debian does not use it, however Arch Linux does (assuming with a sublicense).