[InclinedPlane]

If Markdown had continued to be robustly maintained by Gruber then I would give that thought more credence. As it is now it's barely just one notch shy of abandonware, I think that transfers Gruber's feelings from the realm of reasonable criticism to the land of butthurt.

[andybak]

Yep. Nuances of etiquette are one thing but I'll always side with the person that is trying to move things forward over the person that is throwing up hurdles.

To my way of thinking, Gruber comes out of this looking churlish and unhelpful at best.

The more pertinent question is why Jeff didn't make more effort to base this off one of the existing standardisation efforts.