“the moral of the Internet’s story is that simple, open-source protocols that scale up tend to win over complex top-down approaches”
Really enjoyed this: The story of how RSS beat Microsoft
https://buttondown.com/blog/rss-vs-ice
“…there was simply no getting around how bloated ICE’s requirements were. Its North Star was automating complex, corporate publishing partnerships. It contained fields for catalog pricing and negotiation, content expiration tags, copyright enforcement functions, and the ability to apply the display website’s visual branding to feed content. While most of them could be ignored, that didn’t make its 58,000-word Getting-Started guide any more digestible”
“”I definitely want ICE-like stuff in RSS2, publish and subscribe is at the top of my list, but I am going to fight tooth and nail for simplicity.” Winer argued in one of the many combative and public RSS mailing lists.”
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