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I see the "embrace" part. But I don't see any "extend" or "extinguish". Seems to be just FUD. Lots of cynical people wish Google was as "evil" as 90s MS, but th
by streptomycin 14y ago
I see the "embrace" part. But I don't see any "extend" or "extinguish". Seems to be just FUD. Lots of cynical people wish Google was as "evil" as 90s MS, but that false equivalence just doesn't hold. It would only hold in some outlandish scenario where Google added proprietary extensions to RSS to make everything that operated with Reader incompatible with anything else, thus eliminating the main advantage of RSS as a common standard (like MS did with Java).
- taligent 14y agoI have hundreds of starred articles in Google Reader. So yes it was more than just RSS.
- magicalist 14y agoThat's a detail of the reader, not the formt. That's like claiming that offering an option to order entries by date ascending or descending is extending RSS. (moreover, you can export your starred stories and several readers support importing them)