On: Standard Markdown Is Now Common Markdown

[shard972]

> Don't redirect it? Seriously?

To what?

> This guy is actually a prick.

That escalated quickly.

[MCRed → shard972]

But who escalated it? Gruber spent a few hours many years ago, and hasn't bothered to incorporate changes in open source tradition, leaving Markdown a half implemented mess.

These people picked it up, and rather renaming it (which they should have done, but which also would have resulted in a tirade from gruber) they kept his name.

Que tirade from gruber.

That's where the quick escalation happened.

[smackfu → MCRed]

A private email "tirade" which is showing some restraint when you have as big a blog audience as Daring Fireball.

[tptacek → MCRed]

"Open source tradition"? Can I ask after your own open source contributions, so I can get a sense of the authority behind this assessment of how "open source" works?

[coldtea → tptacek]

No need to see his "credentials".

It's not like HN people don't know follow OSS projects and can't tell when the creator of one is being an inpediment.

Even if that's not how all "open source" works, its how the sucessful projects do.

[tptacek → coldtea]

Right there: the idea that the creator of an open source product could be an "impediment". The belief that you are entitled to any convenience that could flow from someone else's work.

[bionsuba → tptacek]

Tu quoque, his OSS contributions have nothing to do with his claim.

[tptacek → bionsuba]

No, that's true, but there's nothing else backing his claim either.