Google for the phrase "revolution of rising expectations"; I think that accounts for most of the disappointment over the JDL. People have been psyched for a full open-sourcing announcement, and when they got something else, their expectations were deflated with a crash. Naturally they resent it, and say so at great length. It's not pretty, or even rational, but it is predictable.

BTW, you should stop saying that all attributes will be discarded; a/@href is not, fortunately.

Wanna consider upgrading to the latest TagSoup? I'm hoping this one will be really be 1.0, if no more defect reports come in. And I want to persuade Tim to use it in the spiffy new comments system he's designing.

Done and done, John. Thanks for pointing out the oversight about attributes. I started allowing anchors with "rel='nofollow'" some time ago but forgot to update that text. And thanks for TagSoup!

I recommend aptitude over apt-get (and apt-cache and some of dpkg). You just need to start using the one command ("aptitude") and you'll probably have a trivial transition from the lower-level commands. "aptitude search soup"; "aptitude install python-beautifulsoup"; "aptitude upgrade"; etc.

Advantages: quicker to type ("apti" should be enough), better logging in case you get into trouble, pretty nice curses UI if you don't give any commands.