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Dave Winer calls for lynching of everyone who uses JSON. Includes the following delightful observations:

• JSON isn’t XML. (Verbatim from the article, where it is written in italics.)
• Because JSON is not the object serialization used in any standard Dave Winer has authored, JSON sucks.
• People are not allowed to make clean breaks from earlier standards anymore, since everything since Dave Winer started is obviously perfect, and solves every problem from every angle.
• Not only is JSON not XML, JSON is ‘reinventing’ XML. (Cursory facts: XML 1.0 was published in February 1998. JavaScript, from which JSON’s syntax was cribbed wholeheartedly, appeared in December 1995.)
• Whoever invented JSON should be strung up in a tree. (”Now,” apparently.)

Winer Number Decrementation Power, Activate!

PS: I am fully aware that for the actual Winer Number to occur, personal attacks must be made. There’s something to be said, however, for the strength of the threat: that all sinners must be lynched. Batteries sold separately.