Facebook makes up its mind and takes the plunge. After spending years contributing to all kinds of Open Source projects, Mark Zuckerberg's company joins the Linux Foundation, to which he will go on to contribute as a “platinum” member of the organization.
Somehow, Facebook has made something official that has been taken for granted for years. The multinational is one of the companies that have contributed the most to strategic projects such as the React library for Javascript, or the Open Compute Project, which aims to build an open hardware data center. In addition, it is also contributing to the Linux's cGroup2 working group which aims to develop better software for container technology.
As a platinum member, Kathy Kim, Facebook's director for open source projects will join the foundation's board. An engineer with more than 20 years of experience in the Open Source world, before coming to Facebook she had worked on similar projects for both Google and Microsoft.
The truth is that despite its "problems" when it comes to managing the privacy of its users and certain business practices that have put it in the eye of the hurricane, the company's relationship with open-source software is impeccable and in fact, is the largest contributor to some of the projects promoted by the Linux Foundation itself, such as Presto, GraphQL, Osquery, and ONNX.
On the other hand, it has put its own Open Source projects in the hands of the community, among which its PyTorch machine learning program or its “ Data for Good ” program is worth highlighting, which puts a large amount of data of all kinds in the hands of research centers to tackle problems as serious as global warming or COVID-19.
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