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To be fair, they have a very long history of open-sourcing internal software, and it becoming industry standards, this is not at all new, as some have been sayi
by cube2222 2y ago
To be fair, they have a very long history of open-sourcing internal software, and it becoming industry standards, this is not at all new, as some have been saying.
Especially so in database technology: rocksdb, zstd compression, presto, Cassandra, Hive, Velox (this one’s new) are all Meta’s doing.
And those are just the popular ones, there’s way more (database-related) projects they open sourced that didn’t get too popular!
So all in all, as much as I’m happy to complain about them as a company, they’ve always been huge contributors to the open-source ecosystem.
- SXX 2y agoWhile this is true they wasn't so different before compared to Google and even Microsoft in later years. Other companies also released a lot of open source software. AI research is different though. Everyone else decided against open source and started to dig their own moats justifying it with different kind of BS. Yet Facebook / Meta has decided to be on side of open innovations.
- iddan 2y agoAlso in web development technologies: React, React Native, Jest, GraphQL, & Docusaurus