If you sit by the river long enough, you'll see the body of your enemy float by.

Here's a pretty good introduction: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2003/04/21/whats_your_winer... (read the comments)

He has a long history of fucking over business partners and customers, developing mediocre ball-of-mud software, writing terrible specifications and being the worst spec-maintainer of all time. Thankfully most of his technical efforts have been unsuccessful, despite the effect his self-aggrandizement had on the media for much of the last decade.

Unfortunately a few of his clusterfucks did slip out: XML-RPC, SOAP, and his epic mismanagement of RSS (which only ended with a headshot from Atom). The man singlehandedly set the web's progress back about a decade! If not for him, the nightmare of WS-* would not have existed -- the likes of Microsoft and IBM would have done something stupid in a big way, but they wouldn't have pretended it had anything to do with the web.

We were just a $4M business - who cares about a $4M business - investors don't. We were saying 'you know we would never do it - you guys know us but you know it was he says, she says. But you know what, the day of reckoning must come. You just build the business. The credibility comes with the quality of business. Then they realize that the stuff you were saying was true...Revenue forgives all sins"

Josh James, founder of Omniture, sold to Adobe for $1.8B

http://byuebusiness.blogspot.com/2009/12/josh-james-december...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1164815

"It works! As your competitors rise, eventually they have done to them what they did to you, and if you sit there a while, you don't have to do a thing -- nature takes care of it. "

whaaa???