Facebook Open Sources the Platform

As speculated and confirmed last week, Facebook today is announcing that it is open sourcing significant parts of the Facebook Platform code in order to allow developers to get a deeper sense of how the Platform works and invent possible extensions as well. According to Facebook,

The goal of this release is to help you as developers better understand Facebook Platform as a whole and more easily build applications, whether it’s by running your own test servers, building tools, or optimizing your applications on this technology.

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