For those who are saying Jeff Attwood posted this publicly out of nowhere, please read this from 2009: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/12/responsible-ope

For those who are saying Jeff Attwood posted this publicly out of nowhere, please read this from 2009: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/12/responsible-open-source-code-parenting.html http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/12/responsible-open-so... Now I don't know if he privately mailed Gruber prior to writing that, but to say it came out of nowhere is to forget several years of Stack's history with wanting Markdown to work like one would expect of a living open-source project.