Ask HN: OData is REST – but would you use it?

I'm going to create a public API and i love OData for using (querying data, ...). Everything is build in.

But off course, odata is supported by Microsoft. And i'm curious if this would be appreciated when creating a public API?

It is RESTfull, but it's also a protocol on it.

You can find some examples here : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh169248(v=nav.71).aspx

But i'm actually curious if any of you would appreciate/use such an API?

If it's not appreciated, i'll just go with REST, but it seems to me that more can be done with OData...