> Gruber really should put on his big-boy pants though, IMO, and thank those who've picked up his ball and run it further down-field from where he'd abandoned i

> Gruber really should put on his big-boy pants though, IMO, and thank those who've picked up his ball and run it further down-field from where he'd abandoned it quite some time back. Yes. Very much so. Personally I'd have been honoured if something I came up with gets big with sites like these, picked up and carried on by smart people like these. Especially if it kept the same name, because Gruber will always[0] get to say: "Markdown? I invented that". That's the big-boy pants part of it: Gruber has that claim. Being "the inventor of Markdown" is pretty much the biggest claim of value Gruber has anyway, not that perl-script his copyright-license pertains to. And it's that value which only gets bigger thanks to this project. IMO it doesn't even make sense to complain about somebody else running with an idea that you haven't touched in years, yet has grown huge on the Internet in the mean time. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_rights_%28copyright_law%29#Berne_Convention https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_rights_%28copyright_law%... (in large parts of the world, anyway)