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The intransigence that Gruber gets so much flack for is largely limited to asking people that make a text processor incompatible with Markdown to not use the name.

I haven't researched carefully to figure out if he coined the word, but if he did his request is pretty reasonable.

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Fair enough. But then again too bad Gruber gets all the credit (and consequently the privilege of nomenclature), while the late prodigy Aaron Swartz at least was his underacknowledged co-inventor.¹ I don’t think Swartz would have agreed on such a lock-in.

¹ http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001189

He is acknowledged here:

http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/

You have to scroll down to the heading that says "Acknowledgements".

Setting aside that your statement is not especially precise, the style of your argument here is pretty gross. If you want to find something a dead person actually said on a matter that is one thing; arguing that they surely would have agreed with your position is quite another.

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