Pheedo has reviewed and responded to Google's RSS patent claim. If potential adopters want to know the degree to which RSS is a better mode of information distribution than former methods, one only has to look at the pregant pause of investment and legal interest in the medium.

Looking at the "5 stages of innovation decision", at least those according to Everett Rogers, we might likely be in the third state, the state of decision. From a corporate perspective, while I'm not where where the science is behind this, typical methods for bringing new products to market are usually marked by stages of investment of capital resources and pursuits of legal measures, when a company decides to adopt, rather than reject an innovation.