I like many of these much more than the submitted version in the original article. I wonder though, shouldn't any serious effort to do this try to get Gruber o

I like many of these much more than the submitted version in the original article. I wonder though, shouldn't any serious effort to do this try to get Gruber on board? He seems to have some design sense and declaring "this is the markdown logo" without his approval just seems a bit.. disrespectful?