Re: "Reborn into a world that's grown up"

["Bill Kearney" <wkearney@syndic8.com>]

>So comparing it to an OS doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

[assorted non-sequitors snipped]

> The installed base of Movable Type is an utter mess of different syndication
> formats. How will they clean it up? They probably won't.

Dave, this is completely false.  MT defaults to providing both RSS-1.0 and 2.0,
both in well-formed and validating formats.  There's nothing wrong with MT's
output.  There's nothing about that needs cleaning up.  To insinuate this is a
lie.

> Blogger users are
> not exactly the most leading-edge people. Sure there are a lot of Live
> Journal Atom feeds, and there are just as many Live Journal RSS feeds, but I
> don't see too many people subscribing to either.

Then you're blind.  There are hundreds of thousands of people using those
services.

> So if you're planning on Atom sweeping up easily or quickly, you're
> dreaming. At best it can add more confusion to an already confused format
> space. Hardly something to celebrate.

Again, quit the FUD.  It's just not true and no matter how many times you chant
the lies they won't be the truth.

> About the protocols, you make a lot of sweeping statements that you don't
> justify. I don't like the way you characterize the MetaWeblog API, which I
> designed, deployed in two products, and evangelized successfully to get
> broad deployment in a very short period. It has stood the test of time. I've
> never heard anyone who actually built apps on top of it complain, quite the
> contrary, people seem pleased with its elegance. The Atom API steals the
> core idea of the MetaWeblog API, that the syndication format provides the
> basic vocabulary for the API. That was a new idea, not something Atom
> invented, but I don't recall seeing that acknowledged (I might have missed
> it).

Atom steals?  How about Dave steals?  RSS wasn't yours to claim copyright and
yet...

As for the metaweblog API, standing firmly (if half-baked) on the shoulders of
Evan's work with the Blogger API.  Even while ignoring the homegrown Manila API.

Dave, it's clear what you're after here is an abandonment of everyone's efforts
in developing Atom.  This is not going to happen.

If you can't see fit to participate in the development of Atom then honestly you
should find some other ways to spend your time.  This effort is going to
continue regardless of your FUD.

-Bill Kearney