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From another post of his: "About open source and whether I have the standing to discuss it, I've made a huge contribution to open source with the 2004 release
by parfe 15y ago
From another post of his: "About open source and whether I have the standing to discuss it, I've made a huge contribution to open source with the 2004 release of Frontier under the GPL. I was releasing code long before the terms free software or open source existed. Even so, as you'll see, I don't believe in the boundaries, I think ideas should freely cross the boundaries, and they do." http://scripting.com/stories/2008/08/10/howViralIsGpl.html#p3 http://scripting.com/stories/2008/08/10/howViralIsGpl.html#p...
I had no idea what substantial contribution this guy provided. Turns out his company, UserLand, eventually GPL'd a content management system called Frontier
http://frontierkernel.org/ http://frontierkernel.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UserLand_Software#Frontier http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UserLand_Software#Frontier
While I personally have not heard of it, the author believes quite strongly in its importance.
- drumdance 15y agoDave Winer is widely regarded to have invented both RSS and blogging.
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- drumdance 15y agoThe article you link to clearly says that RSS used some of Winer's scriptingNews syndication format.
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- parfe 15y agoAfter seeing some other comments I went and looked into it. It seems Winer is the one who thinks he invented RSS. Reality seems to say multiple competing XML formats for content syndication existed around the same time. Someone took some features of Winer's format and combined it with an existing one and called it RSS. Shrug And on inventing blogging I read up thanks to wiki [1], as usual, and lo and behold! The claim his blog is one of the oldest is sourced! To an interview in which he claims it about his own blog, and then discounts it a sentence later. I have no opinion on if this guy actually influenced as much of tech history as he seems to think, but history has either been very unkind to him, or he promotes himself beyond the facts. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogging http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogging [2] http://news.cnet.com/2008-1082-985714.html http://news.cnet.com/2008-1082-985714.html
- rcade 15y agoThat would be a neat trick, since RSS was created at Netscape a full year before Winer got involved. http://www.rssboard.org/rss-history http://www.rssboard.org/rss-history Over time, the number of Internet technologies Dave Winer didn't invent approaches zero.
- drumdance 15y agoTo clarify, I don't have a dog in this hunt. I was just responding to the original comment about "who is this Dave Winer guy?"
- revscat 15y agoThe first blogger I ever encountered was, of all people, Bruce Campbell. He was doing regular, personal updates to his website way back around 2000. The term "blogging" came a good time after this.
- keithpeter 15y agoA couple of sources on the history of blogging. Bernstein's reminiscences of the personalities show that little changes... http://tawawa.org/ark/p/jorn-barger-community.html http://tawawa.org/ark/p/jorn-barger-community.html http://www.markbernstein.org/Jul09/Flames.html http://www.markbernstein.org/Jul09/Flames.html