The latest post on ‘ReadWrite’ is titled “How Facebook Will Fuel The Next Wave Of Open Source Businesses”.

Matt Assay says, “It’s no longer in doubt: Facebook is the world’s largest open source company. Facebook could already have been considered to be in the open source lead through the release of its datacenter designs, databases and more. This week’s open-sourcing of a network switch (Wedge) and its operating system (FBOSS) have cemented Facebook’s place atop the podium of open source contributors.

But have they also sounded the death knell for open source companies?

After all, with so much incredible open source code emerging from Facebook, Google (which released PDFium this week), LinkedIn and others, is there still room for companies to sell open-source software?”.

How Facebook Will Fuel The Next Wave Of Open Source Businesses

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