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by andybak 4976 days ago
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.