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	<title>Gea-Suan Lin's BLOG</title>
	<link>http://gslin.blogsome.com</link>
	<description>Gea-Suan Lin's Murmuring</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2005 20:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Yahoo! Kimo Bid disallow selling Free Softwares and Open Source Softwares</title>
		<link>http://gslin.blogsome.com/2005/04/18/yahoo-kimo-bid-disallow-selling-free-softwares-and-open-source-softwares/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2005 20:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gslin</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Murmuring</category>
	<category>Computer</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	Yahoo! Kimo Bid announced a new policy in 2005/4/13: 禁止刊登自由軟體或開放原始碼軟體 (&#8221;Disallow to sell Free Software and Open Source Softwares&#8221;): (Thanks for zonble to translate)
	Dear Yahoo! Bid User:
	You are not allowed to sell the compact disks which contain free softwares or Open Source softwares burn or copied by yourself. We want to remind you that please [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p><a href="http://gslin.blogsome.com/go.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftw.bid.yahoo.com%2F&amp;i=0&amp;c=754a043eb934c8b519f59e17eff89ce0ebc813ac" rel="tag">Yahoo! Kimo Bid</a> announced a new policy in 2005/4/13: <a href="http://gslin.blogsome.com/go.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftw.mb.yahoo.com%2Fauction%2Fboard.php%3Faction%3Db%26bname%3D9_announce%26mesg_id%3D130&amp;i=0&amp;c=129ba483edcc1712df8e1f360b2412232c90a4f7">禁止刊登自由軟體或開放原始碼軟體</a> (&#8221;Disallow to sell Free Software and Open Source Softwares&#8221;): (Thanks for <a href="http://gslin.blogsome.com/go.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fzonble.twbbs.org%2F&amp;i=0&amp;c=99b9b032448f3f934f734794bf65f612388a0748" rel="tag">zonble</a> to translate)</p>
	<blockquote><p>Dear Yahoo! Bid User:</p>
	<p>You are not allowed to sell the compact disks which contain free softwares or Open Source softwares burn or copied by yourself. We want to remind you that please do not post upload and list such items, or they might be deleted by the system administrator. Please refer ‘Yahoo! Kimo Bid Policy and Rules » Disallowed Items » Illegal Items which Infringe Copyrights, Trademarks and Patents’.</p>
	<p>We hope you may know that free softwares and Open Source softwares still hold their copyright, the copyright owners uses different licenses about how users use and distribute these softwares. Therefore though people could use them, it does not means that they can sell these softwares, Yahoo! Kimo disallow users to sell compact disks (or any other medium) which contain such softwares in order to avoid controversies.</p>
	<p>The system administrators will delete such items, we will not return the fee asked while uploading and listing these items. If it disturbs you, we hope you can understand why we have to do this. </p></blockquote>
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		<title>Fraud Advertisement in Yahoo! Kimo</title>
		<link>http://gslin.blogsome.com/2005/04/01/fraud-advertisement-in-yahoo-kimo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2005 12:27:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gslin</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Murmuring</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	In Taiwan, the largest portal website is Yahoo! Kimo (Kimo was acquired by Yahoo! in Nov 2000), but today I see a fraud advertisement on theirs site:
	
	The red zone means &#8220;Your browser hasn&#8217;t been installed Macromedia Flash 6 Plug-in, to bring the faster connection speed over Internet, we suggest you download and install it.&#8221;
	After click [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>In Taiwan, the largest portal website is <a href="http://gslin.blogsome.com/go.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftw.yahoo.com%2F&amp;i=0&amp;c=1f44b73f1db2bef4182e5df28cc9b96b4ac8e5f2" rel="tag">Yahoo! Kimo</a> (<a href="http://gslin.blogsome.com/go.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kimo.com%2Ftw&amp;i=0&amp;c=38f835d084bec644e5af79b0d61e2c6e531d6287">Kimo</a> was acquired by <a href="http://gslin.blogsome.com/go.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2F&amp;i=0&amp;c=264d2208958b1c0d261a11d1813b6812869f7287">Yahoo!</a> in Nov 2000), but today I see a fraud advertisement on theirs site:</p>
	<p><a href="http://gslin.blogsome.com/go.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2Fgslin%2F8079533%2F&amp;i=0&amp;c=c7c1806eac3de56f91983b5feb1b5bfbb5608258"><img src="http://photos7.flickr.com/8079533_1062fd0a0b.jpg" alt="" /></a></p>
	<p>The red zone means &#8220;Your browser hasn&#8217;t been installed Macromedia Flash 6 Plug-in, to bring the faster connection speed over Internet, we suggest you download and install it.&#8221;</p>
	<p>After click it, however, it doesn&#8217;t bring me to <a href="http://gslin.blogsome.com/go.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.macromedia.com%2F&amp;i=0&amp;c=18c3ee1d2c75c3057c64c65180678ac7aa5056f0">Macromedia</a> site but a advertisement page about potato crisp:</p>
	<p><a href="http://gslin.blogsome.com/go.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2Fgslin%2F8079703%2F&amp;i=0&amp;c=22d2d284e3ddd609bcf30e83dbf52eba97931794"><img src="http://photos7.flickr.com/8079703_e50b6e92c1.jpg" alt="" /></a></p>
	<p>What&#8217;s wrong in <a href="http://gslin.blogsome.com/go.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftw.yahoo.com%2F&amp;i=0&amp;c=1f44b73f1db2bef4182e5df28cc9b96b4ac8e5f2">Yahoo! Kimo</a>?</p>
	<p>Update: <strong>I did install Flash Player in my Firefox.</strong>
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		<title>English Blog</title>
		<link>http://gslin.blogsome.com/2005/03/31/english-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 00:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gslin</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Murmuring</category>
		<guid>http://gslin.blogsome.com/2005/03/31/english-blog/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	I have my own blog in Chinese, it&#8217;s in http://gslin.org/, but I think maybe I should try it in English more often :)
	Yeah, it&#8217;s the reason I create this blog.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>I have my own blog in Chinese, it&#8217;s in <a href="http://gslin.blogsome.com/go.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgslin.org%2F&amp;i=0&amp;c=aba012f4e1911b8e9c7310c9119a7a6feb0fb1e2">http://gslin.org/</a>, but I think maybe I should try it in English more often :)</p>
	<p>Yeah, it&#8217;s the reason I create this blog.
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