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Dave Whiner lamenting the demise of RSS and OPML, you don't say!

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For good reason. Those are much more open technologies than anything that Google offers.

Ha Whiner, I see what you did there.

No actual argument, just making fun of some guy's name.

Very nice.

I don't think that was the parent's intent. Dave Winer basically invented RSS and OPML.

Of course he was. He was saying that Dave Winer was "whining" about Google et. al., shifting away from RSS.

Bullshit comment that I hate seeing on HN.

Could be a typo.

Relax, go have a cig.

Typo or lighthearted joke. Either way, chill out

No, Winer did not invent RSS. Please know your history before spouting nonsense. Winer pushed RSS into the mainstream no doubt. But he wasn't the inventor, in any sense of the word.

I said "basically". The only point I was trying to make is that the guy who misspelled his name might not have been making fun of Winer's name.

Sorry, that was a typo on my part, honest. Got back to HN only when it was too late to change :(

My point stands though: Whiner lamenting the demise of RSS and OPML is not news. Every time he makes HN, he's found some new way to lament that RSS was killed/sabotaged/forgotten. It's funny (and sad) to see how he's now added OPML to the list of grievances.

But he's not changing XML-RPC!

XML-RPC in its original incarnation DID need to be changed but from my read of that history, Microsoft turned what was an elegant proposal for making the content more contextual into the SOAP WebServices mess.

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