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It's funny how people think that source code is a company's most valuable asset. Realistically, what is someone going to do with the Facebook source code? Put
by RandallBrown 15y ago
It's funny how people think that source code is a company's most valuable asset.
Realistically, what is someone going to do with the Facebook source code? Put up a Facebook clone? First, they need the infrastructure set up that can actually host the code. Then they need to figure out how to deploy it. I bet there are enough gotchas in that process to make it nearly impossible to do without having a few people from the company there to help.
So if they do get it running, what then? You have a social networking site that can scale to hundreds of millions of users, but you have NO users. It isn't any better than Facebook, so why would anyone join?
- comex 15y agoThey can figure out the exact algorithms being used to rank posts, make suggestions, etc., which could be interesting to a whole lot of people-- users, competitors, spammers...
- RandallBrown 15y agoDamage can definitely be done, but it's still not as big a deal as many people like to think it would be.