HTML 5 splinters into Living and Snapshot standards

Stupidity rules when egos are bruised.

[incrediBILL]

[websitemagazine.com...]

The two groups responsible for the development of HTML (the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group or WHATWG and the World Wide Web Consortium or W3C) have decided to have two versions of HTML5 – the snapshot and the living standard – making the decision on which is best to use a rather confusing one to say the least.

I'll quote it again: "Can't we get along?" - Rodney King

[Fotiman]

I heard about this like a year ago, so why is it getting reported about now?