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This weekend, Jason Calacanis discovered that NewsGator was putting ads alongside their full content RSS feeds in NewsGator online. He says his full content feeds are for "non-commercial use ONLY" and that they "DO NOT ALLOW ADVERTISING AGAINST OUR *FULL* RSS FEEDS." Greg Reinacker, founder of NewsGator, in pure blogospheric form responded by bending over and greasing up. Jason followed up.

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I've got a couple points to add. FeedDemon is commercial software and uses Jason's feeds. Ads are one form of commercialization of software. Selling a product is another. There's a lot of software that seems to be violating Jason's guidelines. Why isn't he complaining about them? Actually, he is.

He was upset that I was sending full-content Weblogsinc blog posts in Rmail and told me as much. I asked him for an OPML of Weblogsinc blog posts so that I could correct the problem. He followed up that what I was doing was not a problem. I wonder, had Greg not responded with BOGU, would Jason have backed off?

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Was Calacanis upset about full feeds appearing in RMail or full feeds *with ads* appearing in RMail? If it's the former, as an RMail user I don't see any reason he should be able to stop e-mail based reading of his feeds. 
There were no ads in the Rmail that Jason was concerned with. Although, I would be interested in someday monetizing that possibility.
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Randy
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