Sure, but your missing the point. RSS is also an ecosystem. If there are no producers, or readers, there are no consumers. If the ecosystem goes away people won't use RSS anymore. Making it effectively dead.
No, I don't believe jsilence missed the point at all. In fact, that point is the most important one: if all RSS feeds died tomorrow, I would still be able to re-create them on my own machine by periodically polling every single website that I care about.
Now if that sounds like a monster waste of bandwidth, it should: the publishers get something from this deal, too.
Plus they get readership, because I use RSS to remind me that there are articles on the web that I want to read.
