Re: Thoughts, questions, and issues.

[Aaron Swartz <aswartz@swartzfam.com>]

Per Kreipke <per@onclave.com> wrote:

> As a fervent admirer and user of Userland's Frontier, I am appalled by your
> posts to this list. For a guy with a 'flame retardent policy' your tone and
> attitude is anything but. So, let's 'stop walking on eggshells' and look at
> the things you've said so far.

I must apologize, I asked Dave to come out and say what he really felt, and
he did. I appreciate that. If you don't, don't listen to him.

>> It won't run in a lot of environments.
> And neither does XML-RPC. Sure, it runs in a bunch, but it sure doesn't run
> everywhere and it certainly isn't for non-programmers. RSS is for
> non-programmers. RSS 0.9 and 0.91 were great, but it has to grow. Two-way,
> XML-RPC based publish-and-subscribe sure isn't an 'evolution' of RSS, it's
> also grand departure.

Dave never said he was going to go straight XML-RPC. Even so, even XML-RPC
is a lot simpler than the new RSS, even if it's not self-documenting.

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