Winer Rushing 2.0

Submitted by Morbus Iff on Mon, 2002-09-09 15:10

Chris Croome asks: "what do people think about Dave Winer's plan to issue RSS 2.0 tomorrow?". I replied simply: "I think he's rushing it, and everything is going to suffer." Since this is my blog, and I can flame in my own namespace (ha! get it? namespaces? RSS?! Oh, nevermind), I'll add some bite. Ultimately, I think he's rushing forward merely so he can one-up the RSS 1.0 people, much like they seemingly did with their "higher version is better version" back in 2000. Since 2.0 is larger than 1.0, he'll again be back in the dictator seat, much as he did back in the Netscape/RDF v0.90 days. It's a standard Winer power-trip.