Jon's conversation with Mr Safe
Jon
Udell: I'm never a fan of fixing what ain't broken.
Arguably, though, there was no other way forward in this case. The
worm at the core of the weblog apple had to be extracted. It's true
that vast numbers of yet-to-be-written RSS applications need no
more than what RSS already does, or can be extended to do using the
mechanisms it sanctions. It's also true that vast numbers of
yet-to-be-written RSS applications will require RSS to evolve. It
had to become possible for that evolution to occur in an open and
vendor-neutral way, and when the dust settles I think it will be
possible.