NetNewsWire Status: Brent Simmons' Open-Source Retirement Project
Simon Willison's Weblog·yesterday·Commentary
Brent Simmons, creator of NetNewsWire, retired roughly a year ago and has chosen the veteran RSS reader as his sole retirement project. Free from any commercial obligation, he is focused on making the software as good as it can possibly be. Simon Willison calls this approach inspiring, noting he relies on NetNewsWire daily across Mac and iPhone.