I was firmly on Readability's side on that, but don't lose site of the fact that Readability set their own business model. They're willing to cut their take to

I was firmly on Readability's side on that, but don't lose site of the fact that Readability set their own business model. They're willing to cut their take to 0% now, they just weren't willing to do it then. The difference being before content creators would have gotten 70%. Now they get 0. (For the general, publicized case). Back in February they could have easily revised their own plan, to take 70% of net rather than gross, say.