Tue, 17 Sep 2002
decafbad picks up the Winer-Hemenway Cage Match
I've watched with amusement as the battle over RSS heats up. This morning, decafbad summarized the true nature of it better than I could.
I've spoken with both Morbus Iff and Dave Winer via email on several occasions. I find Morbus much easier to get along with and agree with Kevin Burton's assessment. In the end, despite the fact that the defacto engineering culture would lean toward rationality over emotion, it's emotion that provides the impetus to put products out the door.
And really, does anybody believe that Morbus wants to kill Dave? I don't, but the way he says it is highly amusing, and that amusement could help to defuse a tense situation if people would just relax a little. Surely, I can't be the only one out here that finds joking about my own demise at least mildly amusing. To me, the seriousness that some folks display in considering their own demise is indicative of a larger cultural problem - talking about death being tabboo. I was going to link to Dave Winer's post about it this morning, but he's just edited that away. Sigh. Message to Dave: revisionist PR is going to come back to haunt you.
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