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Has it occurred to you he hasn't touched the spec because he believes it doesn't NEED to be touched? That others disagree is not an argument for his having aba

• orf 12y ago
  He can believe that it doesn't need to be touched all he likes, it doesn't change the fact that it does. The many subtly incompatible forks dealing with Markdowns ambiguities attest to that. Want to write some Markdown? Do you use vanilla markdown, github markdown, stackoverflow markdown, PHP markdown, a markdown parser with extensions? What we don't need is yet another fork but a standard. Gruber doesn't want to step up to the plate? Fine. The community will. Gruber doesn't like the name? Deal with it.
  • etchalon 12y ago
    It's his name and his project. He gets to decide what the name is, what projects may use that name, and how they may use it.