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open source: more than just a good idea

Facebook’s Open Hardware

The Portable Consultant has always been a supporter of open source philosophy, and not only in matters of code. As a technical architect on some large-scale portal projects in the past, I’m always intrigued by the infrastructure behind massive services such as Facebook and Google.

Facebook has “opened” their server technology and announced the creation of the Open Compute Project to distribute this intellectual capital.

Cheers,
-pmh