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> liberal. The question is whether this success will continue once > serious businesspeople get into the act, when real money is at stake, > when lots of people start syndicating information that is mostly > processed by machines (calendars and schedules data that would be OK, is it fair to paraphrase this argument as "RSS works fine today, but Atom will enable you to be more flexible in seizing new opportunities tomorrow?" This is certainly the sort of argument that is directed at businesspeople instead of techies, but it still comes across as FUD. I say FUD because the argument so far is unsubstantiated by any real-world examples that would make someone at NYT pay attention. And the converse could easily prove true. You also raise the point of "steeped in XML best practices", which is probably fair to classify as a philosophical argument. If we are concerned about architectural purism, and want a way to exchange calendar information (and it's not clear that there is customer demand for RSS to do this anyway), I would argue that RDF iCal is the best practice. In fact, based on that I always thought that R(DF)SS 1.0 had the unassailable high ground with respect to purity of practice (as opposed to RSS's "loose consensus and running code"). For people concerned about best practices, why would anyone abandon RSS 1.0 and jump to Atom, especially when RDF parsers are *finally* becoming widespread? I hear Danny's unbridled optimism that "one day RDF will work well with Atom", but we have heard that song and dance before. Why anyone who cared about RDF would abandon a perfectly good RDF-based format in favor of a format that "might one day work great with RDF" is beyond me.
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