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Story: Microsoft tries to calm nerves over RSS

Posted by: Matt Webber (Wednesday 17 August 2005, 11:52 PM)

Doug is right - it could be named something better, something more catchy. But it's not. It's named RSS.
Just like www, or GTi or AC/DC or any one of a hundred acronyms I could mention where the public know precisely what is being referred to.
The point of this article was to raise alarm bells before another good idea gets mangled in MS's quest for dominance.
MS unfortunately has a history of plundering standards or products for their own pirate gain.
Java had barely established itself when MS came swashbuckling through and extended it into something different and as for what they've done with HTML and Internet Explorer only extensions...
I think MS will find plenty stand ready to repel boarders and stick with RSS.
Some are saying Firefox calls them Live Bookmarks anyway so what's the point? Well a Live Bookmark in Firefox is a bookmark that takes it's content from an RSS feed - that's not calling it something else, it's making use of a good idea.
Anyway I like RSS - it's really simple sounding.