Thanks Ian – I think you make some good points here. Web services (including Mozilla) make changes to alter user behaviour all of the time. However, in this case, I feel that Facebook perhaps went a step too far. Not by the letter of the law, but certainly by the spirit of it.

You mentioned my DMLcentral post; I’ll be expanding on it in a short presentation this Friday at the Indie Tech Summit. I’ve already published the (fairly self-explanatory) slides: http://www.slideshare.net/dajbelshaw/indietech-summit