For all the great things going on in open source software, truly open source data isn't all that common. I love playing around with third party APIs as much as

For all the great things going on in open source software, truly open source data isn't all that common. I love playing around with third party APIs as much as anyone but as software developers we need to be extra careful that we are not building on sand. Just the thought of being cut off limits lots of interesting ideas and side projects for me. In some ways I want to build a platform just to get 100% access to some really fun data thrown off from the platform in which to build fun things on top of.