Mozilla caused a stink when they suggested that they owned the trademark to the feed icon.  So many in the community has embraced this icon.  Even Microsoft has chosen to adopt their competitor’s easily recognizable icon.
However, were it not for the community’s embracing this icon, there would be no uniform love for the feed icon.  [...]

Standards demand that there is one rss feed icon, and you can understand why.  RSS is scary sounding to the non-geek and while it is really simple once you’ve been shown how to use it, because it is often referred to by many different icons and buttons, the novice is understandably confused as to how [...]

While Microsoft has debated which RSS icon to use in their upcoming versions of Internet Explorer, Office, and Vista, they’ve gone from designing their own, to now adopting Mozilla’s orange version. 
Knowing that whatever icon Microsoft chooses will end up being the standard, I can only applaud them for taking their largest competitor’s icon and [...]