A Reason to Not Hate Facebook: Open Source Contributions

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Recent reporting claims computer science students don’t want to work for Facebook. Based on your ethics as developer, would work for Facebook? If open source is your thing, then perhaps you will bring some love to the recent Facebook hate fest.

For the privacy-minded, this past year has offered plenty of reasons for avoiding the social media giant, most notably its murky, ever-shifting privacy policies and seeming eagerness to share user data with other companies, from Cambridge Analytics to Netflix.

But Facebook is making significant contributions to leading-edge, widely used open source projects. GitHub’s annual Octoverse report says Facebook is fourth in the world in terms of corporations contributing to major repositories. Our own reporting showed that Facebook was in sixth place, but still punching above its weight class.


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