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On 30 April 2012 12:54, Martijn Grooten <sweetwatergeek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Philip Hudson wrote: >> er... free software? FaceBook? No. >> >> https://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9226600/Facebook_hacker_comes_clean >> >> This is really quite worrying. If members of this list can be bamboozled by >> corporate flim-flam into believing the likes of FB produce free software, >> then who is safe? > > No one made that claim. Someone (Paul, I believe) linked to pages > where Facebook and Twitter say they use free software to build their > sites and its employees contribute to the open source community. That > doesn't make the website itself open-source (the back-end, that is - > the HTML/CSS/JavaScript front-end obviously is). Very few websites > are. The HTML/CSS/Javascript front end isn't open source, it's copyright with an appropriate license, same as the backend - just because you can read something doesn't mean you can copy, modify or redistribute it. Twitter do however provide the really rather nifty Bootstrap css/js framework, and that's open source. A -- Aaron J Trevena, BSc Hons http://www.aarontrevena.co.uk LAMP System Integration, Development and Consulting -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq