Thursday, September 4, 2014; 11:38:27 AM Eastern
Let Markdown be Markdown
- The Rolling Stones openly copied American blues musicians.
- But they came up with their own name, which left them free to develop their own style, following whatever direction their art pulled them in.
- And in 1981, the Rolling Stones got together with Muddy Waters to perform the blues classic Please Don't Go. What a thrill to see Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ron Wood paying respect to Muddy Waters. How awkward it would have been if they all had the same name.
- Whatever comes after Markdown should be as respectful as the Rolling Stones were to Muddy Waters. It seems so simple.
- #### Update
- I posted a comment on Jeff Atwood's post.
- Follow-up post: Email to Gruber.