John Gruber on why he doesn’t like the name “Standard Markdown” for what then became #CommonMark: “@twangus @s_margheim @danielpunkass They’ve done more than “formalize”. They’ve changed the syntax. New syntax, new name. That’s all I ask.”
Discussion at the time of why Gruber didn't like #CommonMark being called “Standard Markdown” or “Common Markdown”.
#StackOverflow and #StackExchange explicitly endorsing scraping their site contents (due to Creative Commons licensing), but not “Stack Content Republishers Attributing Poorly and/or Excelling at Ranking”
discussion of renaming #CommonMark from “Standard Markdown” and then “Common Markdown” in response to Gruber’s complaints