[beagledude]

say what you want about Facebook but I give them props for open sourcing so much code to the community. Cassandra, Thrift, Scribe,Hive, etc...

[ZoFreX]

A list of Facebook's open-sourced applications and their major contributions to other open-source projects can be found here: http://developers.facebook.com/opensource/

[lrcg]

"Please take a look, tell us what we did wrong and join us in working together to make every data center more efficient."

Mad Props.

[skeletonjelly]

Indeed. This is how I want to see society. Sharing knowledge for the greater good. Probably the reason I'm not a fan of detriments of this such as software patents and Apple in general.

[farlington]

Apple has open sourced a lot of their projects. Check it out: http://opensource.apple.com/ http://developer.apple.com/opensource/