There may ideally be only 4 versions of RSS, but Winer was responsible for 6 of them :) Mark may be an asshole, but he's nearly always correct (save for his re

There may ideally be only 4 versions of RSS, but Winer was responsible for 6 of them :) Mark may be an asshole, but he's nearly always correct (save for his recent Apple II fixation), and he follows up instead of trying to edit his mistakes from the record. He has a lot of company in hating Winer, basically everyone Dave's ever worked on anything with. Here's some examples of classic Dave: http://www.metafilter.com/26701/ http://www.metafilter.com/26701/ http://www.metafilter.com/33699/ http://www.metafilter.com/33699/ http://workbench.cadenhead.org/news/2881/ http://workbench.cadenhead.org/news/2881/ (note that rcade, the author of the last link, was Dave's sole defender in the earlier ones). Here's some freshly curated ridiculousness: http://eyeonwiner.org/ http://eyeonwiner.org/ http://davewinerscrazytrain.tumblr.com/ http://davewinerscrazytrain.tumblr.com/ RSS is no simpler than Atom, not even when used naïvely — it's just easier to break. It was successful because Winer was at one time successful, but after he managed to attack and alienate everyone else in the field, they moved on and started over with a clean slate.