The Open Compute Project: Why Facebook Is Giving Away The Goods: "Facebook can effectively crowdsource its expertise because it leverages a much larger community than they have available to them internally,' said Stephen O'Grady, principal analyst at Redmonk. 'As smart as the Facebook community is, they're not necessarily going to be as smart as the whole rest of the industry, which now has access to this technology.'
Sharing its blueprints may gain Facebook not only free manpower, but cheaper equipment."
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