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Imitation and Flattery

I can hardly complain, since Userland’s push for RSS rendering got me started on doing an RSSBox macro for Conversant — but I do think this is kinda funny.

Gee, do you think they looked at the docs on my implementation? Those parameters sound pretty familiar.

I can hear the sounds of “Doh, I shoulda thought of that!” echoing through Dave Winer’s house now. I’m not upset about it, but I do think it’s rude. When I did my version, I send him an e-mail saying, “Hey, thanks for the ideas — this is what I’ve done with it.” You’d think he could take the time to do the same.

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3 Responses to “Imitation and Flattery”

  1. Seth Dillingham Says:
    February 1st, 2001 at 2:19 pm

    On Thursday, February 1, 2001 at 2:02 PM, Greg Pierce wrote:

    >I can hear the sounds of “Doh, I shoulda thought of that!” echoing through
    >Dave Winer’s house now. I’m not upset about it, but I do think it’s rude.
    > When I did my version, I send him an e-mail saying, “Hey, thanks for the
    >ideas — this is what I’ve done with it.” You’d think he could take the
    >time to do the same.

    He did at least mention on scripting.com that he was glad you were working on
    it, when you first told him about it.

    When I saw their rssbox stuff, my first (stupid) thought was that perhaps you
    had copied him. Duh, I obviously wasn’t thinking about all the history involved
    here…

    Seth

  2. Greg Pierce Says:
    February 1st, 2001 at 3:19 pm

    > When I saw their rssbox stuff, my first (stupid) thought was that
    > perhaps you had copied him. Duh, I obviously wasn’t thinking about all the
    > history involved here…

    I’m not claiming any great originality. I had just got finished reading
    some of DW’s recent comments on how the press always left Userland out of
    discussions of SOAP and it struck me as strange that he does the same thing
    to anyone he gets ideas from.

    g.

  3. Donald W. Larson Says:
    February 1st, 2001 at 5:58 pm

    >Greg’s Home Space: http://greg.turtleprod.com/352
    >–
    >
    >> When I saw their rssbox stuff, my first (stupid) thought was that
    >> perhaps you had copied him. Duh, I obviously wasn’t thinking about all the
    >> history involved here…
    >
    >I’m not claiming any great originality. I had just got finished reading
    >some of DW’s recent comments on how the press always left Userland out of
    >discussions of SOAP and it struck me as strange that he does the same thing
    >to anyone he gets ideas from.
    >
    >g.

    Amen to that!

    Don
    –
    Donald W. Larson
    Global Business and Project Manager
    MacroByte Resources
    San Marcos, CA
    http://www.free-conversant.com/

    “Knowledge organizations need to get knowledge workers to turn more of their knowledge into information, into documents, into content.” — Rewarding Knowledge Workers by Gerry McGovern, http://www.clickz.com/cgi-bin/gt/article.html?article=2405

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