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Friday, August 19, 2005
RSS Version 3: Because There Aren't Enough Competing Standards
I'm sure everyone has already seen the RSS Version 3 Homepage, whether via Slashdot or one of the other million sources that have pointed to it. From the homepage:
Welcome to the RSS Version 3 Homepage. This site strives to create expanded and complete standards for syndication of online content - more specifically, it aims to recompose the RSS Version 2.0 standard due to underdocumentation and lack of concern towards modern necessities. Our goals are to provide at least one complete standard for common use under the Attribution/Share Alike Common License.
Hmmmm...so RSS 2.0 is underdocumented, and the solution to that is to create a competing standard? Interesting. Classic case of the dark side of OSS: "I don't want to figure out how X works, or contribute to the boring parts of the project, so I'll start my own very slightly different project."
