Seems to me as an ignoramus to these goings on that part of the impediment to progress is ambiguously named forks of the spec. For instance MarkdownSharp on the

Seems to me as an ignoramus to these goings on that part of the impediment to progress is ambiguously named forks of the spec. For instance MarkdownSharp on the face of it isn't just a reimplementation of Markdown in C#, it's a fork of it. As someone who doesn't know C# were I to do an implementation of Markdown I'm not likely to look for improvements in something called MarkdownSharp.