intertwingly

Mike Davies (Isolani): The upside of starting with a clean state of Atom was we could think through every part of the specification, and use the collective experience of the syndication developers to produce a better specification. Also the discussions around the Atom Publishing Protocol helped kickstart REST as a viable and simpler way of offering web services.

I look at it this way: in the 70’s there was a push in the US to adopt the metric system.  While the metric system is preferred by scientists, use of English units still abounds.

In any case, you can still put a 2-liter bottle of Diet Coke inside the same shopping cart as your half-gallon of 2% milk.  What matters most to consumers isn’t the packaging but what is inside.