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Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
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Aug 19, 2008 5:08 am |
Mark Down is a new Smart Ascii format. Markdown is free for personal use, and costs $50 per domain for commercial use. Does that mean the format requires that payment, even if you write your own rendering code?
Update: [John Gruber] makes a great FramIng case for Smart Ascii. But there's a reason why plain text browsers like Lynx don't just show you the raw HTML source code. It's simply not meant to be a readable format. Doesn't it strike you as odd to write in a format that isn't readable? Suddenly, it struck me as absurd... Thus, Markdown. Email-style writing for the web.
Aaron Swartz discusses it and notes he's written an app to convert to Mark Down from HTML. He says Mark Down is Open Source.
Bill Seitz, fluxent at gmail dot com, Weblog