Haven't we seen this movie about the clash of egos and a non-standard "standard" before? It didn't end well and no one seems to have benefitted from the exerien

Haven't we seen this movie about the clash of egos and a non-standard "standard" before? It didn't end well and no one seems to have benefitted from the exerience. A rose by any other name would certainly not be a rose to the casual reader. "Smakdown" (for example) would require a Google search to inform that reader. We'd loose 1 minute to see that "it's a new standard [ forked from | based on ] "Markdown by John Gruber". Calling it a rose would mean reams of existing code that would generate errors on this new "Rose" input. Names matter when they break something. But only until we learn the new one and write new code.