Open API lessons for LinkedIn and Facebook

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jun 1, 2012 12:33 AM EDT
The Register; By Matt Asay
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One of the cardinal rules of open source is reciprocity: you can use my open-source code under the same terms that it was given to me. But as open source shifts to open APIs, "open" is increasingly a one-way street. As one major case in point, LinkedIn likes to tout its open API to developers, but apparently only developers of a certain kind: the kind who don't compete with LinkedIn.

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