>(until it isn't) There is only one version of Org-Mode, with its own reference implementation, and it's been that way for years. >I'm assuming all of the var

>(until it isn't) There is only one version of Org-Mode, with its own reference implementation, and it's been that way for years. >I'm assuming all of the variations of Markdown that were created were created without knowledge of the original Markdown creator. Not so. Daring Fireball was repeatedly asked to participate in advancing, changing, standardizing MD, but chose not to. He was well aware of the variants emerging. >Is the OP going to monitor all open source projects and block people from creating an improvement of Org-Mode That's not how reference implementations work. The only thing that matters are variants that get enough traction.