Why Facebook open-sourced its datacenters

Not very much substance to the article - Facebook opened their designs because they can't afford the manpower Google can.

After google, yahoo and microsoft released their designs. Welcome to the party!

Seriously, more open and efficient designs are good for everybody.

Google, Yahoo, and MS have released photos of their servers and datacenters (and like online dating, sometimes the photos hide more than they reveal), not CAD files.

They open sourced datacentres so they can sell their used servers and craps later on.

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monkeyrun: Just like why google can open source Android, because they are in the business to sell Ads, not OS.

and trilby: Not to get soapboxy but is it a good thing that the pillars of innovation in America are companies that run free consumer services in order to sell ad space for products manufactured in China? I'm not one to ignore the global economy but I wonder in this innovation and new economy are really all their cracked up to be or if China really will own the west within 20 years.