Dave Winer talks about how the blogging tools community can prevent RSS 2.0 from being HTML'd by Microsoft, saving the community in the process.

Good to hear people learned things from Netscape's defeat when that community lost control of HTML. Where are we today with that though? The W3C has standards and Netscape (via Mozilla) has some of the best web standards support out there. Mozilla has some truly great customer-driven features (like popup blocking). IE6 is broken, prone to security hacks, prone to invasive (annoying, etc.) adware and spyware, and rarely ever updated with new features.

Who is the winner? The communities will always win eventually, even if the general public isn't conscious of it yet. Too bad it took 4 plus years to do it ... I can't blame Dave for wanting to not go through that mess.