Facebook may open source some of its back-end code this year

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 CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently described Facebook as embracing "the hacker way," which is to say that the company has a sort of freedom and interest in constantly innovating, breaking, and creating without boundaries that limit other enterprise businesses. How much that applies to Facebook in practice has long been up for debate, but the company may be edging closer in that direction in the near future.