@wycats pretty explicit license for usage of "Markdown". And if you're violate that license to do sth the owner doesn't want...
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@jankrems the license is for the Perl software. You can't license a name, just software, with the BSD license! -
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@wycats C'mon, if I write a web server in Java and publish a spec for "Std nginx config" b/c it uses similar config files, that'd be weird.
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@wagenet Sure, but who cares? Brendan Eich doesn't get to personally control JavaScript. Some things grow beyond the original creator. -
@wycats IMHO Gruber is way overprotective of the name. I also think he doesn't like Atwood.
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@wycats My perception is that it's a pro-Gruber zeitgeist. - 1 more reply
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@wycats whole lot of the backlash I’m seeing is pro-fork, anti-name choiceThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@wycats sane people love the standard idea, hate the name hijack :)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@wycats I haven’t seen that.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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