May 02, 2003
NO! I co-invented RSS!
Embarking on yet another campaign to warp history, Winer's trying to lay claim to having been some sort of co-inventor of RSS.
This is not true. This is a gross mistatement. Dave may well have been an early adopter of RSS but he certainly didn't co-invent it. The staggering amount of prior art makes it clear that efforts like CDF, MCF, the earliest works of RDF and the nascent RSS from Netscape were first. Winer's name is nowhere on the authorship of those efforts.
Apparently Dave, never before a member of academia, is on some bender trying to fluff up his image... by stealing the works of others. The gall of this is nothing short of breathtaking. Let's hope his employers will do the diligence and see through his petty charade. Hopefully, they'll unceremoniously fire his ass (like Wired did).
So folks, once again Dave is trying to mislead you. Don't buy into his distortions. He's certainly done a great many things, some of them useful even, but his on going megalomania is getting out of hand.
"guilty pleasure"
*laughs* it certainly is. I would feel bad about it but after years of watching Winer broil others - constantly - but just out of the purview of his main "marketing" piece; well, why bother restraint.
Sometimes lessons need to be taught, no matter how painful.
Posted by: S.T.F.U. on May 2, 2003 07:16 PMI don't pretend to know the truth. I have my suspicions though. It's really not about giving credit where it's due, it's more about not taking credit for something you didn't do, and not demanding it in the first place.
Dave may have put more effort and use into it than the Netscape folks, but that does not make him a co-inventor.
Posted by: Dean on May 5, 2003 10:14 AM
