“Companies can see pieces [of software] as far more core to their business,” said Recordon. “But our ability to serve PHP faster is not core to our business. But cheaper/faster development tools for other companies is a real competitive advantage.” Hence, logic dictates that because there’s no business loss if Facebook’s infrastructure is open-sourced, then open-sourced it should be.

/via Facebook opens up about open-source software

Very nice quote by David Recordon, creator of OAuth amongst other things and currently Facebook’s open source guru. The rest of the interview is worth reading as well, but this quote is something to think about. Which parts of your infrastructure can you open-source?