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John Gruber now has to cope with U.S. v Apple (daringfireball.net)

submitted 8 months ago by HotGarbage@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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After so much seething over the EU and the DMA, how will he continue to defend his favorite megacorp?

Without having read the actual lawsuit yet

Says it all

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[–] self@awful.systems 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

co-creator of markdown

my opinion of Gruber immediately went from “fuck that guy” to “FUCK THAT GUY” when I realized he’s the same one who’s been writing the garbage non-specs that guarantee I’ll never have a good time parsing bbcode-but-everywhere

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 8 months ago

Yeah with that one the guy rolled a 1d3 and got to apply a constant psychic damage effect to the whole world