This is an arrogant power play that's lost me a lot of respect for the perpetrators. They clearly don't respect Gruber enough to honor his intent for the langua

This is an arrogant power play that's lost me a lot of respect for the perpetrators. They clearly don't respect Gruber enough to honor his intent for the language. And don't give me that "it's successful in spite of its ambiguity" nonsense. A standard inevitably makes people find ways to work "within the rules" while doing crazy stuff that the language is not intended for (like many people in these comments). Markdown's lax specification ensures that people honor the intent, not the implementation, and keeps it immediately understandable and grokkable. Also, it's genericized? Are you kidding me? They could have called it anything else, but they just had to go for full ownership of the spec. I hope all the indie App Store developers that Gruber is friends with shut this "standard" out.