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: 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?