RSS never was an open standard like you would expect from a real standards organisation, e.g. IETF or W3C. Because of dominance posturing and fights between th

RSS never was an open standard like you would expect from a real standards organisation, e.g. IETF or W3C. Because of dominance posturing and fights between the multiple parties involved in the development of RSS, it is a train wreck of ad-hoccery and incompatibilities, and serves as a prime example of how not to do things. https://web.archive.org/web/2004/http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/02/04/incompatible-rss https://web.archive.org/web/2004/http://diveintomark.org/arc... > Remember who actually killed it? Atom.