[rschuetzler]

They also want to use the name because their project directly comes from Markdown. And is a fully fleshed-out spec for Markdown that does not currently exist. And because it makes their project easily recognizable for what it is: a standard for Gruber's Markdown.

They may very well end up changing the name, but that doesn't change the fact that this project is basically Markdown++.

[etchalon]

And if it's any good, people will move on. Gruber's "Markdown" will disappear and everyone will talk about the "Markdown-influenced Textmarks."

Everyone knows Linux was inspired heavily by UNIX, and yet, it's called Linux instead of "Standard UNIX".