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1. Comment - MS: Forget OPML, Use Windows RSS

   (Feb 3, 2006 - 4:30 PM)

   Interesting observation, coming from an IBM'er. After all, who do you think taught Microsoft these tactics in the first place? Your post sounds pretty much like a summary of IBM in the 1970s and 1980s to *this* observer.
   
   Or any other software company, come to think of it. Who *doesn't* have such practices? Apple? Sun? Netscape? Borland? Ashton-Tate? Lotus? CA? Open source? All of them have done what you describe, at some point or another.

2. Comment - MS: Forget OPML, Use Windows RSS

   (Feb 3, 2006 - 4:29 PM)

   HTML gets poorly and inconsistently implemented by web designers. (At least, vis-a-vis w3.org standards) Strangely, this hasn't stopped HTML from being mildly widely-used.
   
   As may be... So feed readers are as badly written as every other piece of software in existence. And? So? This makes OPML (and feed readers) different than what, exactly?