When Tim Berners-Lee developed the first specifications, protocols, and tools for the World Wide Web in 1993, his employers at CERN chose to make the underlying code publicly available on a royalty-free basis so that anyone who ever wanted to use it or build upon it could do so without having to pay any licensing fees to CERN or ask for CERN's permission.
Which of the following best describes the reasons for this decision?

a. CERN did not recognize the full potential of the World Wide Web and did not think it was worth investing any more of its own resources into its further development.
b. By offering the Word Wide Web as a freely available alternative, CERN hoped to discourage people from using America Online, CERN's biggest competitor for online communication services.
c. Had the technology been proprietary (i. e., closed and privately licensed), it would likely not have become as popular as it has or have been adopted by so many users and institutions across the globe.
d. Because Tim Berners-Lee did not ask his employers for permission before using CERN resources to develop the World Wide Web, as punishment, he was required to give the technology away for free and sacrifice the millions of dollars he could have personally made by selling his idea for a profit.

7.23 main lab 7 - online shopping cart background this main lab extends the earlier prep lab "online shopping cart part 1". (you should save this as a separate project from the earlier prep lab). you will create an on-line shopping cart like you might use for your on-line purchases. the goal is to become comfortable with setting up classes and using objects. requirements this lab can be done individually or as pair programming. expanded itemtopurchase class (15 points) extend the itemtopurchase class as follows. we will not do unit testing in this lab so we will not be giving you the names of the member functions. create good ones on your own. create a parameterized constructor to assign item name, item description, item price, and item quantity (default values of "none" for name and description, and 0 for price and quantity). additional public member functions set an item description get an item description print the cost of an item - outputs the item name followed by the quantity, price, and subtotal (see example) print the description of an item - outputs the item name and description (see example) additional private data members a string for the description of the item. example output of the function which prints the cost of an item: bottled water 10 @ $1.50 = $15.00 example output of the function which prints the item description: