Let’s Have an RSS Icon Pissing Match

Looks like folks in the Opera camp are gearing up for a pissing match over their use of the “standard” RSS feed icon originally developed by the Mozilla folks. Mozilla has asked Opera to sign a licensing agreement for the use of the icon, which is now being trademarked. Mozilla wants to manage the usage of the icon so that is only used in appropriate situations. Could they abuse this? Potentially. Will they? Not likely. Their trademark will allow them to “protect” the icon from abuse.
What I don’t understand, is why would someone want to go along with using a standard icon, but be unwilling to sign paperwork agreeing to use it in a standard way? How does it help the user community to get into another territorial pissing match over the use of an icon?

Let’s get everyone on board and use a consistent icon. Looks like while I was typing this, Chris Pirillo just posted the same thing…