Re: [syndication] Re: Policies and so on

[Jeremy Zawodny <jeremy@zawodny.com>]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 06:38:13PM -0000, Jerome Chevillat wrote:
> 
> Some website provides rss feed for non profit organization and 
> non-commercial uses... 
>
> Yahoo!Policy says (and I am quoting):
>
> > The feeds are provided free of charge for use by individuals and 
> > non-profit organizations for personal, non-commercial uses
> 
> Here is my question... does online aggregator go again this policy ? 
> like MyWireService (http://www.mywireservice.com/), which plans to ask 
> 10$/year to use their services...

Why do you draw a distinction between on-line aggregators and desktop
aggregators?

> I would say no since the service provided is the "aggregation" and not 
> the access to the feed itself!
> 
> What do you guys think ?

I, obviously not speaking for Yahoo, agree.  Others my not.

Jeremy
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