On 5/9/07, TheVeech <<a href="mailto:theveech@gmail.com">theveech@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 14:17 +0100, Tony Arnold wrote:<br>> > Alan Pope wrote:<br>> ><br>> > > I have no idea what you're talking about. You are saying that flickr/google
<br>> > > video are proprietary social networking tools that "we" in the open source<br>> > > community lack?<br>> ><br>> > I think TheVeech is suggesting the open source community should
<br>> > create/manage/run more social networking tools such as flickr etc.<br>> > rather than rely on big companies to do it for us and therefore<br>> > (perhaps) not provide support for Linux etc.<br>>
<br>> I hadn't thought of that last bit, but, yeah, that too!<br>> <br>> <br>> > Personally, I think this would be very difficult. A service such as<br>> > Flickr must need huge resources for it to be successful (I mean in terms
<br>> > of hardware, the disk space alone must be fairly huge). Such resources<br>> > do not come for free, so it either needs to be done by a company that is<br>> > earning money else where or the service itself has to get an income from
<br>> > somewhere.<br>> <br>> I've said this before, but I wouldn't mind paying as a way of<br>> contributing to something that's in our interests - I couldn't see it<br>> happening without some contributions - but run like the projects, to
<br>> provide the best web-based services we can. But these are ideas without<br>> purpose, because I wouldn't know where to begin!<br>> <br>> BTW, IIRC, Google just uses bog standard Hard Drives.<br>>
<br>> <br>> > To be honest, I don't see the problem with Flickr! It's well supported<br>> > by F-spot. Perhaps rumours of some deal between Yahoo and Micro$oft is<br>> > worrying people.<br>>
<br>> TBH, I haven't heard of anyone getting heated about this, but I've had<br>> enough of the situation. All of 'em are just stuck in the food chain.<br>> Flickr gets swallowed up by Yahoo!, Yahoo! is looking to being swallowed
<br>> up by MS, Roman Abramovich buys Pluto.<br>> <br>> <br>> > Regards,<br>> > Tony.<br><br>Just to add to this:<br>"We use it, we love it, we are committed to its principles, we even make some of it ourselves." is from a blog post on the Facebook blog (
<a href="http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=2223862130">http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=2223862130</a>) . They apparently run mostly linux servers and they used MySQL for their database needs (and it must be one hell of a database). They also release advances they make back to the open-source community, such as 'phpsh', whatever that might be! *And* Mark Zuckerberg hasn't sold out (yet) despite at least one very high offer!
<br><br><br><br><br>-- <br>Josh Blacker