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Aww too bad... it couldn't have happened to two sleazier companies.



Yes, but I do feel a little bad for the other 20,000 developers that don't have the resources to do anything about it.

It's now clear that "open platform" hype is pure marketing spin -- bullshit-speak to make you think they actually give a fuck.


Me too since I'm one of them (and my company now 12 of them) but FWIW, none of us ever forgot that Facebook is not the web, and that it has a profit-motivated owner. We've all expected this coming, and any who didn't deserve what they get for being naive.

I'm writing a blog post on my thoughts about it, story at 11.


Same goes for Apple and the uprising against their banning of non-native development tools. Facebook is not the web, and iPhones are not computers.


You may also like... http://futureoftheinternet.org/ (hit the Download link for a free copy)


Everybody has an "open" something or other these days. The term has been rendered meaningless.




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