Social
networking giant Facebook is no stranger to the world of open source.
After all, CEO Mark Zuckerberg originally built Facebook on top of
open-source infrastructure components. During a keynote at the Linux
Foundation Collaboration Summit on Feb. 18, James Pearce (pictured),
head of open source at Facebook, detailed how the company's open-source
efforts have been reinvigorated in recent years with an increasing
number of projects and code contributions.
"Open has always beaten closed, being connected has always beaten being
isolated, and sharing has always trumped secrecy," Pearce said.
Pearce's responsibilities at Facebook include 235 projects that have
been open-sourced by the company over the years. All those projects
amount to more than 10 million lines of code that Facebook has made
available as open source. Many of those 235 projects are available on
GitHub, where Pearce said Facebook now has more than 150,000 followers
and 26,000 forks.
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