> I can't fathom what advantages The advantage is that the imported Atom bits will be namespaced, so an old client can decide to ignore them and just treat the

> I can't fathom what advantages The advantage is that the imported Atom bits will be namespaced, so an old client can decide to ignore them and just treat the feed as RSS. In format wars, wider compatibility tends to win, even if the overall standard is just worse. Developers are lazy.