It's not so much for the more hardcore fans like us because we all know well enough that team orders happen no matter what. But to a more casual fan it could quite easily give the sport a bad name, it's like match fixing in football to them.
I agree with that point, as for some it's not an attractive aspect of the sport, as they either do not understand or accept the team aspect/principle of the sport, and that the driver is nothing without the team and the car they are given. In my case I have no problem accepting team orders (as long as it's justified - not like when Barichello pulled over for Michael @ Austria) regardless of which team or driver benefits, but I do completely understand that if team orders were to happen on a regular basis (moreso than now), it would probably be quite detrimental to the long term health and image of the sport and make it look even more business like than it already is.
This is why the FIA needs to get off their lazy behinds and either do something to make it so teams do not benefit from using team orders (if you only had 1 driver per team this issue wouldn't exist), or simply abolish it and just quit trying to police such a stupid inconsistent loophole - because at the end of the day, it's naive to think that each and every team who spends billions of dollars to succeed is going to follow the spirit of the rules to the "T", whether it regards to on track strategy/decisions or in the design of their cars.
I feel that the problem isn't the fact that Alonso will de-value F1, I think it is the fact that the punishment was not suitable for the nature in which the rule was broken.
If Alonso wins the title he will have deserved it, certainly.
But then the question of team orders will arise once more. They say it can not be policed, but when the FIA actually caught a team doing it red-handed they did not hand down a punishment that was suitable. The reasoning behind it was that other teams had done it in the past (Since the rule was created) and had gotten away with it. So if the race results are not going to change as a punishment, why have the rule in place in the first place?
I mean, Schumacher was penalized on a technicality at Monaco. He overtook Alonso under a green flag in direct contravention of the rules and he was punished for it.
But the difference at Hockenheim was that Ferrari ordered Massa out of the way. What was Alonso going to do, slow down and allow Massa to retain the lead? Of course not. Ferrari were the party in direct contravention of the rules, not Alonso. So it would have been unfair to punish Alonso. But under the race circumstances, the only parties affected by the team order was the two Ferrari drivers, so a punishment should have been handed down to those drivers. As Frank Williams has stated since, team orders should be allowed because at the end of the day, Drivers are employees of the team. So, the two Ferrari drivers are accountable for the team orders incident, so they should have been punished. Drivers have to be aware of the rules of the sport aswell and they have to agree to these rules in order to compete in the sport. A rule which not just the Ferrari team, but the two Ferrari drivers broke.
However, in these last two crucial races, Mclaren and Red Bull in particular may come across situations which will call for favoring one driver over the other in order to beat Alonso to the championship. The fact the team orders rule was not immediately scrapped after the Ferrari team order hearing could very well skew the 2010 results in Ferrari's favor, leading to a WDC victory for Alonso.
In the interest of fairness they should have scrapped the rule as soon as the decision was made to let the race results stand. That is what has discredited F1, a serious contravention of the rules that went unpunished and could have an effect on the drivers standings.
All things considered, I think Mosley is right.
I agree, although from my understanding the WMSC didn't have quite enough evidence to convict Ferrari of "team orders", although in reality we all know what the "Alonso is quicker than you" message from the team really meant.
Also, I don't really agree that Ferrari should have gotten a harsher penalty, because in the end this wouldn't really accomplish anything (nor solve the root of the problem) other than being an inconsistant/unfair application of a rule and unwritten penalty, as the Champions from both 2007 and 2008 also won their titles due to team orders (although in what some would call a less blatant manner) and were never penalized for such,
simply because the teams didn't make it so blatantly obvious or prosecutable - and IMO just because it was less obvious doesn't mean it's ok or inline with the spirt of the rules. For those who are true followers of the sport understand and accept that if Alonso were to win this year by 7 points or less his title would be no less tarnished than those from 07/08 as well as many others in the past.
It will also be interesting to see if RB and Mclaren implement team orders in the last two races. Up until now they have seemingly tried to protect their image as being top level sportsman (unlike Ferrari) - although IMO they have had some scenarios where either they have been a bit partial to one of their drivers (Vettel/Webber front wing controversy) or have told their drivers to back off to avoid incident (Mclaren @ Hungary), or they have put one driver on a questionable strategy to benefit the other (Mclaren @ Suzuka) which are all raised eye brow worthy if you really want to get technical about it.
As many know, there are always going to be team orders to some extent within the team, whether it be the base design/attributes of the car, who gets what part first, who gets the strongest engines, who runs what strategy in practice, etc ,etc - as David Coulthard has reiterated time and time again. So in the end you can't really universally draw a line for each and everyones opinions as to what is acceptable and what is not.
I'm sure a lot won't agree because its not the most noble way of winning but hell youre not Alonso and he is not running to be a nobleman but running to be World Champion. Let's leave that for the queen to decide. 
