Re: [syndication] Forking, the name game, the politics of naming

["Mark Ketzler" <mketzler@bizslice.com>]

>Jeff Bone wrote:

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> >Aaron Swartz wrote:
> > Really, I'm having trouble seeing what all the fuss is about.
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> Let me see if I can sum it up.  The basic problem appears to be that a
group
> of folks want to take a direction with RSS which, in the opinion of the
> original stakeholders and promoters of RSS, is not in the spirit of the
> original RSS spec.  We all seem to acknowledge that there's too much
> ideological distance between the camps to reasonably work on a single
effort,
> and therefore forking is inevitable.  The controversy is purely on which
> effort --- the new and improved and totally revised and overly
complexified
> effort or the brutally simple incremental improvement effort --- gets to
keep
> using the RSS name.  Given that the original stakeholders are in favor of
the
> simpler version, IMO they should get to keep the name.  I think there's
been
> some agreement about that, too.

Some of the original stakeholders are RSS-DEV, that is their issue. I come
back to who forked?
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> jb
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