Checking in with Mr Safe
Dave Winer,
Backend.Userland,
Jul 07, 2003
The debate about Echo continues with this commentary from Dave Winer, which puts the issue into a nutshell. Winer beliefs two things. First, as he writes here, he believes that standards development must be the work of a single person, maybe two or three, not by committee. "Format and protocol design doesn't actually work that way no matter what some open development advocates say." An open process "only works for cloning ideas that have already been designed." Second, Winer believes that he is that person when it comes to RSS. Opponents disagree with Winer on both counts. They believe that standards creation must be a community process. And even if they agree that there should be a single author, they argue that Winer - who has a vested interest in promoting his own software - is not the person who should be in charge.
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