| Tuesday, June 22, 2004 |
 | Unless you are Dave Winer, UserLand, Rogers Cadenhead or myself, you lack enough facts to make rational statements about the situation
I'm not sure one actually has to know facts in order to make rational statements. A Kantian might argue that facts are only likely to get in the way of rational statements, being as they are related to phenomenal rather than noumenal entities.
Interesting piece, to which the above was a response, here on the Winer situation. I confess that IMHO the person who trusts to a moral rather than legal imperative to protect their work is certainly on thin ice, and that obviously when one is a one man band you can't cover every eventuality - you have to sleep, for starters, and also, if you are paying for it out of your pocket and find that it is consuming disproportionate amounts of time and money, you have a right to take appropriate steps.
However. Throwing a gigantic benny is not always the most appropriate step. The subsequent edicts about how people should react when they wake up to find that their weblog has been replaced by nine minutes of Play for Today - also suspect. Blogger in adenoidal outburst shocker. However, he is entitled to make choices. What it does for the credibility of RSS as a standard or DWiner as its champion... well, that remains to be seen.
Anyway, if we can all take one thing away from the whole mess, I think it must be that people just love to jump up and down.
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