As for your criticisms, Phil, I did email to say that I thought they’d get a more public forum if you emailed them to The Register (there’s a feedback link at every story which means it can then get used in the roundup of letters/corrections). If you don’t grumble there, they can’t improve.
Other points: I’m not sure people care much about the precise history of RSS/Atom (I’ll accept I probably got the finer detail wrong); this was more looking forward at what Microsoft’s embrace meant on this.
Conversely, some of the ”facts” you put forward are future-looking (eg impact on shareware programs), which makes them hard to evaluate.
I was trying to give the broad sweep, in 1000 words, which is harder than it might sound. Sorry to have failed. There’s something nagging away at me about security issues with RSS, but that can wait.
Anyway, happy to be criticised, so long as it’s focussed. And now, back to regular programming.
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