Here is what I wrote to the other user and what generally applies:
I've been spending a couple of hundreds of hours overall on cforms, plus providing free support and people not only have started removing the link love from the get-go, but some even had the nerves to just turn it on, ask for extensive support and after having received free support, they turn it back off. Since "link love" is the only form of appreciation I ever asked from users in return this equates to a slap in the face.
Hence I've decided that if no link love is shown certain (Ajax) functionality will simply not be available and it will fall back to non Ajax form submission. If users disable Ajax, it works as usual.
What are the options for the users?
(1) Obviously the best: simply leaving the link love in place :-)
(2) Use cforms without Ajax capabilities
(3) Alternative link love in some other place on the site
(4) Or users happen to find something on my Amazon wish list reflecting the value cforms has to them (in fact I leave it up the user to determine how much)
(3) & (4) will give you a key that 'unlocks' cforms
Users who happened "to run" into my Amazon wish list of course will all have keys.
This is not meant to be a hostile reaction, but a necessary one for my sanity - if that makes sense.
'Hope for your understanding,