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Facebook is no stranger when it comes to open sourcing its computing knowledge. Over the years, it has consistently created software and hardware internally, then transferred that wisdom to the open source community to let them have it. Today, it announced it was open sourcing its modular network routing software called Open/R, as the tradition continues.
"Open/R is a distributed networking application platform. It runs on different parts of the network. Instead of relying on protocols for networking routing, it gives us flexibility to program and control a large variety of modern networks," Omar Baldonado, Engineering Director at Facebook explained.
[...] "This goes along with movement toward disaggregation of the network. If you open up the hardware and open up the software on top of it, it benefits everyone," Baldonado said.
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/15/facebook-open-sources-open-r-distributed-networking-software/
(Score: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Monday November 20 2017, @09:27AM (5 children)
Pawn: Wow Zucker! Zucker look at that horse climbing out of that well! How does it do that?
Zucker: Oh yeah, cool right? It's your birthday present!
Peon: My birthday present? But it's not my birthday yet.
Zucker: Yeah it came early but it's yours, it's an Open Horse. Black of course, those are always black. All yours as long as you spread it around.
Zucker: We named it Mr. T.
Plod: What? After the actor?
Zucker: Hah! No that's racist my dear friend, don't do that or we must take away your yellow star thing or whatever it is that we use. No, we named it after the famous gift. The historical one.
Pink: Uh-huh. I don't get that but thank you very much, I always wanted a pony but an Open Horse will do, especially one that can climb wells well.
Zucker: It's super tough too, that well over there is a poison well, no water at all. That's one tough horse I tell you, very solid. And doesn't it look flawless?
Pain: Sure does, it's beautiful. So neat and tidy and nothing amiss at all. Really this will save me so much hard work it's almost unbelievable.
Zucker: Yeah. Me too. Me too. A lot of work. It's got good teeth too, and it's very very quiet.
Pong: Cheers Mr. Zucker! Thank you so much for your gift.
Zucker: You're very welcome. Now let's party! The world is ours!
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(Score: 3, Funny) by Bot on Monday November 20 2017, @10:53AM (4 children)
Y U make fun of it?
It's useful software just in case you want to run a facebook on your pc.
Account abandoned.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Fishscene on Monday November 20 2017, @02:34PM (3 children)
Not to be mean, but maybe they're making fun of it because they aren't sure what to make of it?
For example, what does this even mean?
“Open/R is a distributed networking application platform. It runs on different parts of the network. Instead of relying on protocols for networking routing, it gives us flexibility to program and control a large variety of modern networks,”
I know I am not God, because every time I pray to Him, it's because I'm not perfect and thankful for what He's done.
(Score: 4, Informative) by LoRdTAW on Monday November 20 2017, @04:00PM (1 child)
That's what I gather as well. TI'm reading through the article on open/r now and so far all I can gather is it has something to do with mesh networking and terrorism maybe? not sure:
Okay, mesh networking. Got it.
Platform based on mesh routing?
After that I dont know what they are talking about. Mainly because I don't work with any web stuff.
(Score: 3, Touché) by bob_super on Monday November 20 2017, @05:53PM
That last quote sent me from "Ok, SDN" to "Ok, WTF" ?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 21 2017, @12:07AM
Maybe they are open sourcing it because those inside fbook can't figure it out either. Was this obtained from a purchase or merger? Or could it be that they have a department writing useless code and using MARKETING to pass it off as something good?