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> "I don't like his position so he should lose his ownership" That's certainly an unbiased translation :rolls eyes:. If you want to have a good-faith debate,

• MBCook 12y ago
  > "ambiguity is a feature" is not an opinion I can get behind You clearly don't like his position. Be he has explicitly chosen not to make a specification, he's had years and numerous requests. From what I've seen/heard John Gruber likes that it isn't formalized with a spec. So if a group of people, especially a large group with 10s of millions of users (at a minimum) decides to write a spec and name it "Markdown" over Gruber's wishes it sounds like trying to take ownership from him. My phrase was glib, but I don't think it's that far off from many of the comments expressed here.
  • rtpg 12y ago
    He owns an ambiguous text formatting system? He didn't invent the notion of simple ASCII-character based formatting, and he didn't write a spec. Plus this spec explicitly deviates from his implementation, so it's not the same obviously. The reasons that he didn't write a spec after requests is very likely post-hoc rationalisation, behind the simple reason that writing a spec is not a fun task.