Re: Thoughts, questions, and issues.

[Aaron Swartz <aswartz@swartzfam.com>]

Hi Seth!

Seth Russell <seth@robustai.net> wrote:

> Aaron Swartz wrote:
>> It may not be the
>> choice you believe in, but it's a choice that the authors are making. There
>> will always be other formats if you don't agree.
> I don't think the authors will be making this choice.  The tool makers will
> make this choice.   Authors will choose the tools.   If acceptable tools don't
> arrive on the author's desktops, then RSS 1.0, will die.  If aggregators don't
> open portals that accept the feed from these more advanced tools, then
> everyone will keep using RSS and the new format will die.

I'm sorry, I meant authors in terms of authors of the spec, not authors of
the content. (Lots of possible terminology confusion.) I totally agree with
you, the burden is on the tool makers, which is why many of the spec authors
were tool makers themselves.

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