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I wasn't involved at the time, but what I've gathered over the years is that the early history of blogging and rss involved competing standards and personal and
by jleader 15y ago
I wasn't involved at the time, but what I've gathered over the years is that the early history of blogging and rss involved competing standards and personal and technical rivalries. My understanding is that Winer is an ardent self-promoter, quite opinionated, and rubs some people strongly the wrong way. He's created a bunch of cool and interesting stuff, and proudly claims credit for stuff some people don't think he deserves credit for. I don't really know who's right and who's wrong, I suspect there's at least a little fault on all sides.
I think if Winer had explained or given footnotes, it would have distracted from the point of what I thought was a very powerful essay, but then I agree with him about Stallman.
- lkrubner 15y agoDave Winer can claim credit only for the 2.0 version of RSS. The earliest version of RSS was invented by Dan Libby at Netscape. In 2006 I wrote up a thorough overview of the history of RSS up to that point: http://www.teamlalala.com/blog/2006/10/24/rss-has-been-damage-by-in-fighting-among-those-who-have-developed-it/ http://www.teamlalala.com/blog/2006/10/24/rss-has-been-damag...
- brlewis 15y agoWikipedia gives him credit for part of 0.91: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_web_syndication_technology#RSS_creation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_web_syndication_tech...
- sounds 15y agoNevertheless, Winer's point about Stallman is valid and I personally agree with him. I don't care who you are, or where you're from. Even if "I disapprove of what you say, ... I will defend to the death your right to say it" (- Voltaire? no primary source) The internet would be a lot smaller and less interesting if we only let "normal" people in!