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Seems to me that Dave Winer is always down on something. If its not Buzz its twitter or PubSubHubbub its something else. I don't know Mr. Winer, so I try not to
by mgrouchy 17y ago
Seems to me that Dave Winer is always down on something. If its not Buzz its twitter or PubSubHubbub its something else. I don't know Mr. Winer, so I try not to judge, but to me he just seems to be negative guy.
- easp 17y agoI don't know, he's been pretty enthusiastic about a lot of things, and, anticipating snarks, not just his own work. To take one of your examples, he was quite enthusiastic about Twitter, championed it in the early days and staring building on it. Even earlier, I seem to recall him being supportive of Ev Williams and Blogger way back when it was, arguably, a competitor to Dave's Frontier and Radio products. I think a lot of people don't appreciate the amount of expeience the guy has in the tech industry or what it has taught him. He embraced the web back when a lot of geeks were still in diapers, and before that had a decade or more as an entrepreneur/developer in desktop software. He's definitely opinionated, and can be abrasive, but his stance is generally that of an advocate for both users and small developers. He likes accessable interoperability and hates it when big companies come in late and try to coopt standards to their advantage by pushing complexity to shut early innovators and upstarts out of the space.