Again, twitter erupted into its own little controversy. This time, @codinghorror got together with a bunch of smart fellas and tried to tame Markdown. This has sparked a lot of flame throwing with arguments ranging from hijacking what is, supposedly, John Gruber's project to claiming that someone on the internet is a dick (you guessed that one!). Whether Gruber filed a trademark with the USPTO or not has no relevance on whether it’s a dick move to commandeer the name.— Marco Arment (@marcoarment) September 4, 2014 I sympathize that Markdown is something Gruber conceived and it has been a hell of a contribution to the community. I cannot think of writing today any other way. In fact, Markdown's percolation has been astounding. It has been adopted as the de-facto input format across Github, StackOverflow, etc. and has a wonderful app ecosystem around it. However, it is a mistake to think that this happened because MD is so loosely defined. @Gernot And Markdown and RSS are both