Winer Celebrates Locking Out Users, writes Brian Carnell. (Isn't this a little late? Oh, press release time.)
Leave it to Winer to spend months railing about standards and RSS and then reach a deal with The Times for proprietary headlines.
Truly, personally, I don't care one way or the other; I don't use the service.
But it's not like UserLand is replacing a publically available service with their closed one; NewsIsFree still has NYT feeds. It's tough to argue the Radio service isn't closed, of course: it is. Given that not everything should be open--UserLand obviously doesn't exist in a completely open world, since Radio isn't free software--is it not understandable that Dave Winer would rather have closed New York Times feeds than no New York Times feeds? (Modulo NewsIsFree's, that is.)
