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MS Reveals Info On New RSS Extensions
dizzy_p writes "Microsoft released yesterday more information on their earlier announced extensions to the RSS format(s). The specifications can be found on MSDN. The question is, will the mainstream developer adopt these specifications, or will they only live in the Microsoft "Blogosphere" (To quote MSDN). The specifications in question are named Microsoft Simple Sharing Extensions Specification and Microsoft Simple List Extensions Specification"
You have difficulty understanding the "standards" thing, don't you?
I would imagine that Microsoft considers them to be very useful in continuing their practice of embracing, extending, and extinguishing industry standards.
Actually all signs point to this being a case where Microsoft is hoping to fix limitations in an existing protocol while sharing the specification of the changes with everyone freely, very much unlike past "embrace and extend" efforts. The sort of knee-jerk "anything Microsoft does must be evil" reaction displayed in many posts on this subject make members of the OSS movement look like a bunch of mindless religious zealot drones and don't help anything.
What I find interesting is the fact that something like this (an attitude) actually has an article in Wikipedia.
What I find interesting is the fact that somebody thinks my comments were worthy of a troll and flamebait mod. Neither my comments nor the Wikipedia article are either. I used "attitude" tongue-in-cheek, but EE is actually a business practice. If you read the Wikipedia article, you'll see that the author was careful to distinguish that "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" is a claim made by Microsoft critics, rather than presenting it as an actual fact, and that furthermore, though the strategy is attributed by said critics to Microsoft, it has actually been used by dominant players in other industries prior to Microsoft. The Wikipedia article also supplies evidence of Microsoft's EEE tactics that anyone (Microsoft included) can attempt to refute if they so desire. Therefore, the Wikipedia article does not present this as fact, but rather as a claim made by critics, and it points out that as a business strategy EEE does indeed exist, and did before Microsoft ever purportedly used it, and it lists some of Microsoft's business tactics that could qualify as EEE. EEE is not just some random Wikipedia flame by a Linux fanboy, it's widely-known and discussed topic, with multiple pages of references even on Microsoft's own search engine. Finally, this Wikipedia entry is a far cry from baselessly insinuating that someone was involved in the Kennedy assassinations. I'm all for healthy skepticism when referencing Wiki articles, but this one has enough corroboration and recent historical significance that modding me (and the other poster who referenced it in this thread) troll and flamebait is overkill. I hope the metamods read and consider this when evaluating this thread.
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