I don't know Atwood. Everything I know about him is what I've read -- waxing poetic on software development/engineering. I visited his site after seeing this p

I don't know Atwood. Everything I know about him is what I've read -- waxing poetic on software development/engineering. I visited his site after seeing this post, then gleaned what might be the "story". This post picks a fight. Atwood has a beef with Markdown and its stewardship. This has little to do with his open source contributions. I'm a Basecamp, Stack Overflow, Metafilter, news.yc, Facebook, /b, Evernote and Google Docs user. Only one uses Markdown. It's the best kind of markup, agreed. I don't use Markdown in any desktop apps except Scrivener via MultiMarkDown. It's under the BSD license. Atwood can fix what he feels is a poor implementation and it's going to affect his community, little else. If people feel it is better, it'll gain life and traction. He just can't call it Markdown or call on Gruber. I don't agree with this post, nor do I agree with Atwood. Stewardship != license. Gruber scratched his itch. He gave other people other itches. Seems pretty grand to me.