The information about Facebook and the CIA comes from The Guardian. See http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/14/facebook.
Since it was proposed to write software specifically to talk with Facebook, I mentioned the issues this would raise. But Facebook is an example of a more general point: any time we consider developing software to work with a certain web site, we should ask ourselves whether we want to single out that web site for the special endorsement and promotion that is implicit in releasing such software. Different sites raise different issues, and our judgments won't be the same for all of them. The point is that we ought to think about the question, rather than promote use of a site simply because many people are already using it. _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list