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You are not Dan Libby, Ramanathan Guha, Dave Winer, or one of the members of the RSS-DEV Working Group. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS#History

So why are you claiming to be one of the inventors of RSS?



Yes.. I was. the initial documents were never amended as RSS evolved.

Here's one of the modules I created:

http://web.resource.org/rss/1.0/modules/link/

I think the archive is down but the rss-dev group has thousands of posts of me responding and supporting the dev or RSS.

https://www.egroups.com/group/rss-dev

Additionally, I don't really care about being famous for creating something and it's always seemed obnoxious to constantly insist that you were the creator of something.

I was involved in a massive public dispute where Dave Winer had a freakout when I tried to collaborate with him on RSS (he attacked the whole RSS 1.0 movement) and I got sick of constantly getting in flame wars when I'm just trying to improve the Internet.

I also created Apache Feedparser.


Thank you for answering. The members list is indeed incomplete.


Also, no other people who I would consider paramount in creating RSS are on that page including Sam Ruby and the dozens of other people who made massive contributions.




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