He sold out his creation to Big Corporate. I'd expect his pivotal role in allowing DRM to be brought up first anywhere he's mentioned.

There's no washing hands of an act like this. He broke the free and open web permanently for everyone. Creating Solid is not an act of absolution because DRM will forever exist now in all browsers forever. Browsers that increasingly act as our total window into computing.

Who's going to put the genie back in the bottle? No one sitting on the W3C will ever go for it now or in the future.

There's a scottish proverb about this involving goats and relations.

unfortunately you also need to be reminded of their greatest failures when it mattered the most.

Chamberlain is remembered for letting Hitler do what he wanted, not for the rest of his career as a politician.