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PALO ALTO (California): Facebook wants to help others build startups more easily and efficiently by sharing the technology behind the servers that power its massive online social network. In turn, it hopes to benefit from others’ innovations, too.
It won’t make any money from its Open Compute Project. Rather, by making the blueprints and mechanical designs of its servers available to everyone through a model known as open source, it hopes others will improve them. Facebook can then incorporate those advances into its own servers.
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