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RSS never was an open standard like you would expect from a real standards organisation, e.g. IETF or W3C.

Because of dominance posturing and fights between the multiple parties involved in the development of RSS, it is a train wreck of ad-hoccery and incompatibilities, and serves as a prime example of how not to do things. https://web.archive.org/web/2004/http://diveintomark.org/arc...

> Remember who actually killed it?

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