"Our job is not to just build Facebook, our job is to make the world more open and connected — and we in Product Infrastructure are tasked with giving the whole software industry the tools to help us accomplish this mission."
When I see companies like Twitter and Facebook become open source like Wordpress for blogs, then we can say they really care more about making the world more open and connected instead of building their own silo.
they want to open source their TOOLS and maybe even their model, but their data(ie their users)? gods no, that's their profit center, giving that up would be committing corporate suicide.
Even if the engineers were willing & able to do that, the managers would kill it like a 1st trimester abortion.
"Our job is not to just build Facebook, our job is to make the world more open and connected — and we in Product Infrastructure are tasked with giving the whole software industry the tools to help us accomplish this mission."
Then open source your social network and let it be hosted in a distributed manner around the world. Instead of shutting off access to APIs like this: http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/28/facebook-api-shut-down/
When I see companies like Twitter and Facebook become open source like Wordpress for blogs, then we can say they really care more about making the world more open and connected instead of building their own silo.