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Re: Comment on post 321
Err, aspirin is a bad example - it was taken as part of WW2 settlements, it didn't lose by genericifation. (Kleenex and Xerox also turn out to be bad if common examples, for different reasons.) However, RSS would have to have been filed (as well as used) in a trademarkable way, presumably someone can say if it has... Good to see IETF mentioned. IETF standards tend to get the infighting out of the way early, so that when a working group approves a standard, it's the *IETF*'s standard, so that people don't have to consider any one developer to be important to the *use* of the spec (beyond "oh, he wrote that RFC, cool"). Of course, the tradeoff is that they take longer or die entirely... Really, any spec that needs the author around to expand upon it has failed, significantly, to scale.
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