Umm, I was a member of the CSS, XHTML, and XForms committees back in 2001, and most of my fellow committee members were from big corps, including me, representing Oracle on the committee.
Perhaps you're thinking of the IETF. The W3C was always more corporate than the IETF, but even the IETF had lots of corps, it just had more university reps than the W3C did.
Perhaps you're thinking of the IETF. The W3C was always more corporate than the IETF, but even the IETF had lots of corps, it just had more university reps than the W3C did.