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Facebook have given back plenty of open source to the dev community. Scribe (their federated logging server) and HipHop (their PHP compiler) come to mind immed

by j_col 14y ago

Facebook have given back plenty of open source to the dev community. Scribe (their federated logging server) and HipHop (their PHP compiler) come to mind immediately, but there may be others.

zerostar07 14y ago
Their business tactics are ridiculously sleazy though. Aside from the google smear campaign fiasco last year, do you know that facebook does not allow AdSense advertising on it's 3rd party applications? They don't want FB ads performance to be compared with Google's (more profitable ads) on the same pages.
- j_col 14y ago
  I somewhat agree. Frankly I'm no fan off Google, Facebook, or Apple. But pretending that one of them is more "open" then the other because they open source some software now and again is a falsehood: they are all for-profit corporations, with more in common with each other then what separates them, notions of culture aside.
j_col 14y ago
> (please don't mention some minor FB side-products; Apple has tons of innovative products but none of them is free). Please don't rewrite your original comment after I've responded, not cool.
- tferris 14y ago
  You are right, I re-edited and took the passage out (as written below I wasn't able to reply before directly).
  - j_col 14y ago
    Thanks for that.
mindcrime 14y ago
Scribe (their federated logging server) and HipHop (their PHP compiler) come to mind immediately, but there may be others. Thrift[1] and Cassandra[2] as well, FWIW. [1]: http://thrift.apache.org http://thrift.apache.org [2]: http://cassandra.apache.org/ http://cassandra.apache.org/