[notacoward]

> 2. You don't let us share your date in return for paid service

Personally, I think that might be a good option, but you can't claim to have made it explicit before so your "count to 2" insult is misplaced. I know that the only thing you've ever done since your account was created is bash Facebook (how nice that anyone can check that for themselves BTW), but even in that light such childishness is counterproductive.

> if FB rolls over and dies tomorrow, does it mean innovation will come to a complete halt

Total strawman. Nobody said or implied that. There's plenty of knowledge and innovation everywhere, but the amount that can come from Facebook only has to be non-zero to support my point. Several hundred developers who have collectively worked on almost every distributed system you've ever heard of might have an idea or two worth discussing. They might even have a perspective on scaling issues that's highly relevant to the problem at hand but not widely known outside of Facebook and maybe three other companies. Why do you try so hard to throw cold water on any such conversations?