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Three words. . . 

Posted Friday 18th July 2008 22:55 GMT

Stop

Who Really Cares

God I hate how much exposure these "social" sites get.

RE: Three words 

Posted Saturday 19th July 2008 11:58 GMT

I think you missed the point

This is about big companies (Google and Facebook) releasing their works as open source. Facebook is contrasted to Google because google are heavily criticised for not releasing many of their changes to open source projects

What is Faceboook 

Posted Monday 21st July 2008 01:01 GMT

Gates Horns

Hammerbacher is now reported to have become the latest Faceboook employee to have served his notice. Can we expect this Facebook youf to show up in well-remunerated style at Redmond this Fall?

"Faceboook"

"youf"

?

:)

Great Stuff 

Posted Monday 21st July 2008 08:02 GMT

Thumb Up

More open source, the better. And it's definately a good thing to see more obviously money-centric peeps doing it (read Facebook and MS). I think we are at very interesting times in the software world.. There seems to be a lot of changes going on inside all the software big daddies, changes in attitudes, everything..

Love the fact that they uploaded to Google Code.. Although it's probably not an insult.. Google Code is good. We should see the big guys working together more like this.

Learn to spell 

Posted Monday 21st July 2008 10:31 GMT

Dead Vulture

Not all spelling errors can be caught by the spell-checker. And Scamps, get on MSN, I need to talk to you about Stu [-]

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