"Fortunately nobody listens to Dave Winer" Thankfully that's been true most of the time -- a world in which anyone but him used Frontier is not one in which I

"Fortunately nobody listens to Dave Winer" Thankfully that's been true most of the time -- a world in which anyone but him used Frontier is not one in which I want to live. But a few of his clusterfucks did slip out: XML-RPC, SOAP, his epic mismanagement of RSS (which only ended with a headshot from Atom). The man singlehandedly set the web's progress back about a decade! If not for him, the nightmare of WS-* would not have existed -- the likes of Microsoft and IBM would have done something stupid in a big way, but they wouldn't have pretended it had anything to do with the web.