Harvard's Berkman Center Takes Control of RSS

Dave Winer, owner of UserLand and the author of the RSS - Rich Site Summary - specification, has transferred the copyright to Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. The move seems to be designed to alleviate concerns that ownership of RSS by a single business would give that company too much control over the development of the syndication specification. The Berkman Center is now hoping to help spread the RSS word.

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/announceRss2