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Facebook Releases Facebook Platform as Open Source, download here
- markbao 18y agoWhat is Facebook's motive in doing so? I don't know - but here are guesses: - Defeat OpenSocial 'monopoly' on cross-network applications - Allow other social networks to deploy fbOpen so that as people build for other social networks, they can run it also on Facebook, increasing the marketplace - Facebook supporting the OSS initiative? They've done it before (see: Thrift, memcached) - Allowing developers to code better since they know the API better (from the TechCrunch comments - this is BS, since I wouldn't get anything out of reading this code)