> there is a ton a regulations around roads, what kind of cars can be sold for public road use and who can utilize the public road ways as a driver so your analogy fails on its face there.

"open" api doesn't mean "do whatever you want", you're kind of making my point and the point of the article. There is nothing bad about Facebook going to court over that.

This isn't the result of open api, it's the result of badly designed and badly regulated open api.