[chrisseaton]

> I'll never be able to gather a fraction of the user data they managed to get

But they got that user data, though having the code. The code is still the essential bit in the first place. If someone else had had the Facebook code before they did, they could have gotten the data.

[woolvalley]

Code has become a commodity of sorts, just like construction expertise for build 20 story high rises.

It's a good clean data set to train ML models that is the current proprietary advantage set.

[keypress]

Then there should be a push for anonymous open data sets.

[chrisseaton]

In practice it turns out to be nearly impossible to anonymise data sets.