Dave Winer wants Atom to join forces with RSS. I pointed out the fact, in the comments, that this defeated part of the point of Atom, which is to get away from Dave. He deleted my comment.
At least he is interested in having an honest discussion about the real issues involved. (*cough*) I know it doesn't sound like personality conflicts are real issues, but in Dave's case, they are. Without Dave and his intolerable personality, Atom would not exist. The Atom developers would already have worked with him to turn RSS into something better, instead of starting a separate project.
To have any discussion of merging the projects without discussing Dave's personality and his influence over the final result makes no sense whatsoever.
Re:Atom is nice
pudge on 2004-03-10T18:00:56
I've not yet touched Atom, because I am too busy with "real work," but once it is out of beta or whatever, I hope to add it to Slash.
Well, he _does_ say:
If you make a personal statement about anyone I will delete your post.
No strikethrough's, no pleading to take the high road. Just deletion.
So stick to technology, formats, protocols, software, user issues, etc.
If you make a personal statement, the whole post will be deleted.
But, as you say, it's impossible to discuss this in any meaninful way without bringing Winer's personality into it.
Re:Personalities
pudge on 2004-03-11T14:58:13
Well, he _does_ say...
But he didn't delete a comment where someone praised him, only when someone criticized him. And when called on it, he asked the guy to "edit" his comment instead of just deleting it.:-)
