So thinks Jim Louderback, in response to news aggregator NewsGator starting a premium version of its service, with premium (and presumably closed) content…
And Greg Reinacker, the CEO of NewsGator, responds to it here.
And Andy Seidl puts things in perspective, here: “Jim seems to be arguing that since RSS (the technology for moving information) is a free and open standard, that the information being moved by RSS should also be free and open…Whether you need to move information for free or for pay, you are free to use RSS to do so.”
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