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Re:Why is there an Oracle copyright in the middle of a Faceb... by aschobel on Thursday November 18, 2010 @12:33AM (#1917014)
I wonder how much that costs them, must be a fortune.
Re:Why is there an Oracle copyright in the middle of a Faceb... by aschobel on Thursday November 18, 2010 @02:44AM (#1917189)
To the folks downvoting, the following is from Facebook's Front End Tech Talk:

  /**
  * Adding a single line to this file requires great internal reflection
  * and thought. You must ask yourself if your one line addition is so
  * important, so critical to the success of the company, that it warrants
  * a slowdown for every user on every page load. Adding a single letter
  * here could cost thousands of man hours around the world.
  *
  * That is all.
  */
http://www.slideshare.net/makinde/javascript-primer Slide #47
Re:Why is there an Oracle copyright in the middle of a Faceb... by daveman692 on Thursday November 18, 2010 @03:04AM (#1917210)
That comment is in Primer which is a very small piece of JavaScript loaded at the beginning of every page.
Re:Why is there an Oracle copyright in the middle of a Faceb... by aschobel on Thursday November 18, 2010 @03:11AM (#1917224)
Thanks, did FB ever release anything more from Primer? https://gist.github.com/376039

Or is this it? I didn't see the comment.

Re:Why is there an Oracle copyright in the middle of a Faceb... by jankassens on Thursday November 18, 2010 @05:13AM (#1917365)
The Javelin JS framework used for Facebook Lite.

http://www.javelinjs.com/

Re:Why is there an Oracle copyright in the middle of a Faceb... by bhiller on Thursday November 18, 2010 @04:42AM (#1917315)
That it is, it just excludes the comment at the header. It has actually changed a bit since then, but that is still pretty much it.