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Re:Social Networking Goes Open Source With Insoshi by subwindow on Tuesday April 29, 2008 @10:54PM (#177234)
"the code he released under an MIT License in July 2007 should be considered the first RoR open source code."

I hope that's a typo. If the writer honestly believes that sentence, he has no business writing for TechCrunch (or anyone, really).

I think he's talking about "the first RoR open source code for a social network." But even that is a sketchy claim. I've contributed to open source RoR projects that were loose social networks as early as 2005.

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Re:Social Networking Goes Open Source With Insoshi by mhartl on Tuesday April 29, 2008 @11:06PM (#177245)
He meant the latter. RailsSpace was to my knowledge the first open-source source social networking platform in Rails (with the profiles, friending, avatars, blogs, etc. that we associate with a modern social network). Mark certainly didn't mean to imply RailsSpace was the first open-source project in Rails.
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