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I went by Gruber's post for the timing. I didn't click the GitHub gist history [http://gist.github.com/118964 http://gist.github.com/118964], which confirms you

by gry 17y ago

I went by Gruber's post for the timing. I didn't click the GitHub gist history [http://gist.github.com/118964 http://gist.github.com/118964], which confirms you. Everybody? Denouement? Critical mass? Please cite. In one day on news.yc, I've seen two Markdown critiques, which is two more than I've seen, ever. This is a new development to a Markdown user. Please note the bugfixes he sat on. And why this needs to be argued anymore: The BSD license gives you freedom. DVCS is about politics. Do what you need to do. If they don't like what you've done, fuck 'em you've voted in code, theory and premise.

blasdel 17y ago
Some Outright Bugs in Markdown.pl simply described with examples: http://code.google.com/p/pandoc/wiki/PandocVsMarkdownPl http://code.google.com/p/pandoc/wiki/PandocVsMarkdownPl -- He doesn't even mention the hilarity where if you mention the MD5 hash of a token in the document, the hash will be replaced with the token, as Gruber's code uses that as an escaping mechanism! "PHP Markdown" started as a straight transliteration of Markdown.pl, and he lists 123 user-visible changes that he made. The few of those changes that add features were to deal with warts in Markdown's design that made it impossible to not fuck things up: http://michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/ http://michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/ The PHP Markdown guy called out Gruber over this same bullshit 3 years ago: http://michelf.com/weblog/2006/state-of-markdown/ http://michelf.com/weblog/2006/state-of-markdown/ The bugfixes Gruber's been sitting on were mentioned on his stagnant mailing list: http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/markdown-discuss/ http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/markdown-discuss/ The BSD license does gives you freedom, but not authority or the name, and Gruber spent years being hostile towards forkers/reimplementors, and then spent years simply ignoring it. Besides, the only thing the license would give your freedom regarding is Gruber's code, and you really don't want that.
- gry 17y ago
  Thanks.

by gry 17y ago

blasdel 17y ago

Some Outright Bugs in Markdown.pl simply described with examples: http://code.google.com/p/pandoc/wiki/PandocVsMarkdownPl http://code.google.com/p/pandoc/wiki/PandocVsMarkdownPl -- He doesn't even mention the hilarity where if you mention the MD5 hash of a token in the document, the hash will be replaced with the token, as Gruber's code uses that as an escaping mechanism! "PHP Markdown" started as a straight transliteration of Markdown.pl, and he lists 123 user-visible changes that he made. The few of those changes that add features were to deal with warts in Markdown's design that made it impossible to not fuck things up: http://michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/ http://michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/ The PHP Markdown guy called out Gruber over this same bullshit 3 years ago: http://michelf.com/weblog/2006/state-of-markdown/ http://michelf.com/weblog/2006/state-of-markdown/ The bugfixes Gruber's been sitting on were mentioned on his stagnant mailing list: http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/markdown-discuss/ http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/markdown-discuss/ The BSD license does gives you freedom, but not authority or the name, and Gruber spent years being hostile towards forkers/reimplementors, and then spent years simply ignoring it. Besides, the only thing the license would give your freedom regarding is Gruber's code, and you really don't want that.

gry 17y ago
Thanks.