I don't know how well genericization applies to this, markdown was a loosely defined specification, intentionally encouraging modification. all the "incompatibl

I don't know how well genericization applies to this, markdown was a loosely defined specification, intentionally encouraging modification. all the "incompatible" versions of markdown are within what he intended. further, its just the name of a spec, should the owner of a spec really be expected to continuously hunt down and test/validate every implementation of their specification? that doesn't exactly seem possible in the slightest. I don't think he would have trademark protections for something like this for other reasons, I do wonder if there is anything similar that applies in this situation