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The fbOpen Initiative: Facebook Confirms Plans to Open-Source Its Platform

(Posted on  TechCrunch  4 months ago)

A Facebook spokesperson has confirmed to us that the social networking company will announce an open-source initiative around its Facebook Platform sometime today or tomorrow. We originally broke this story we broke yesterday. We’ve also le… (visit source article)
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