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> Either way, they're forcing his hand.

Which I think is good. Long overdue, maybe even.

It's good something like Markdown exists, and it shouldn't have had to flourish despite not having an unambiguous formalized spec.

> If we wants to litigate, cool too; bring it on.

He's got nothing to litigate about. The trademark claim on "Markdown" had no place in his copyright license, nor does that copyright license affect this specifications project in any meaningful way (because they don't use the copyrighted work).

That's why the only valid argument so far has been over the implications of the word "Standard" in "Standard Markdown" being a "dick move" (which is a personal POV, which is fine, which I also happen to disagree with).



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