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Eh, I dunno. Dude creates something. It gets widely adopted. Other group of people want to improve on it by changing it. Dude's stance is: That's fine, I guess

• the_af 12y ago
  Is that how it went, though? At least by the account of the Standard/CommonMarkdown team, it looks more like: Dude creates something. It gets widely adopted (and distorted along the way). Other group of people want to improve it by standardizing it (not changing it). Dude's stance is: ... Standardizers: so, uh, do you want to take part? Dude's stance is: ... Standardizers: do you at least agree with the name? Dude's stance is: ... Standardizers: look, we've gone ahead and did this. Dude's stance is: outrageous! (Ironies get exchanged by both sides) Standardizers: ok, we apologize for the name grab. Here is a list of alternative names we could use (list). Which one do you prefer? Dude's stance is: ... (while tweeting ironies about it, presumably instead of replying to their email) Standardizers: ok, we've gone ahead and picked one alternative. Dude's stance will be (I'm guessing): blasphemy!
  • codinghorror 12y ago
    This is unbelievably accurate. Not even joking. And the last response I got was indeed, more or less, blasphemy!
  • lemonberry 12y ago
    I'm pretty sure the "Dude's stance" is pretty explicit, and public. tl/dr: do want you want, don't use the word markdown. http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/license http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/license