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The Facebook Approach to Open Source
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| But in one other respect, there's something big going on here. The fact that
| Facebook tosses out its code as open source without making a big ballyhoo
| about it, and without even bothering to justify the move shows just how
| mundane – in the best possible sense – free software has become for a modern
| software company. The benefits of opening up your main code are so obvious,
| they don't even need to be enumerated anymore: it's just the way the Facebook
| generation of coders does things.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=1431
The real value of Scribe for open source
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| There is much rejoicing over the fact that Facebook has released Scribe as
| open source.
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| I want to join the celebration for reasons which have nothing to do with
| social networking.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=3029
Recent:
Facebook Malware Targets Windows PCs
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| Fake pages on social networking site Facebook which claim to offer free
| videos will infect Windows PCs with malware, warns F-Secure.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/152404/facebook.html?tk=rss_news
Facebook adopts the CPAL poison pill
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| For more traditional software projects, customers derive value from being
| able to modify the source code. But Facebook's customers are unlikely to do
| so, and now its partners (and competitors) won't do so, either. CPAL may make
| sense in some contexts, but I'm not sure this is one of them, unless Facebook
| actually intends for no one to modify its source code....
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-9958180-16.html
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