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[News] Facebook Powered by GNU/Linux and Free Software Underneath

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Facebook: Science and the Social Graph

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| In this presentation filmed during QCon SF 2008, Aditya Agarwal discusses 
| Facebook’s architecture, more exactly the software stack used, presenting the 
| advantages and disadvantages of its major components: LAMP (PHP, MySQL), 
| Memcache, Thrift, Scribe.   
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http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Facebook-Software-Stack


Recent:

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


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
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