Brace yourselves: Facebook plans MORE PHP jiggery pokery Facebook isn’t done fiddling with PHP – far from it. Team Zuckerberg are cooking up fresh changes to streamline further this veteran server horse for mobile, set to be released under open source. It’s the latest chapter in a rebooted community source strategy that’s chalked up Hip Hop, which then evolved to became Hip Hop …
It's always good to involve others in fixing your bugs if they can spot them.
Extend, Embrace & Suffocate.... or something similar.
No doubt it includes 'open source' libraries in order to report back to 'The Mother Ship Fuck Zuck so marketeers/advertisers can play 'suck your data'.
if connect_from_$Device{Slurp_Data, Ignore_User_Choice, $Device}
or some such.
Just when the US.gov dumped the Obamacare website on GitHub, nothing magic automatically happens by open sourcing something - especially if the project doesn't fulfill a need or has legal/political baggage.
In the open source world, your code has to be clean, useful, and drama-free before it even has a chance to succeed, which may take years. Seeing how companies like Facebook and Twitter withdraw API support whenever anything threatens their business model, it would be technical suicide for a company to tie its future to one of these projects when the sponsor has other interests or is fickle in their technical direction.
If you can make it in open source, you can make it anywhere, but the reverse is not necessarily true - just because you can attract investor money doesn't automatically make your IP desirable or useful to others.
In the open source world, your code has to be clean, useful, and drama-free before it even has a chance to succeed, which may take years.
The first project that came to mind when I read this was pfSense, which is a massive clusterfuck and as popular as ever. No one waited for them to finally clean up their code.
FFS, at least try to make the lie seem feasible. There's never a benefit to such statement that no one can substantiate.
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