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Re:Djot: A light markup language by the creator of Pandoc an... by anderskaseorg on Monday December 05, 2022 @04:08PM (#33871948)
The creator of the original Markdown requested that the standardized version be renamed to avoid using the word “Markdown”.

https://blog.codinghorror.com/standard-markdown-is-now-commo...

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Re:Djot: A light markup language by the creator of Pandoc an... by mikl on Monday December 05, 2022 @05:01PM (#33872525)
…and threatened legal action against anyone using the word “Markdown” in a way he did not approve of.

Jeff Atwood goes out of his way to be courteous to Gruber in this post, but frankly, I think Gruber was being a jerk here, using his claim to the name to tyrannise an open source community that he has otherwise not been involved with in the slightest the last ~17 years.

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Re:Djot: A light markup language by the creator of Pandoc an... by tonto on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @12:14AM (#33876187)
TIL Aaron Schwartz had at least some role in creating markdown also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gruber#History
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Re:Djot: A light markup language by the creator of Pandoc an... by jdelman on Thursday December 08, 2022 @09:57AM (#33908478)
Yes, that's exactly my point. There already is a standardized version, created by the author of the post itself.
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