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Re:Open-sourcing Facebook Infer: Identify bugs before you ship by Locke1689 on Thursday June 11, 2015 @02:42PM (#9701466)
I'd add

* Facebook has recently hired a number of expert language theorists and practitioners. Doing it in-house

  1) Gives them something to do

  2) Serves to cement Facebook's language-expertise-brand recognition and dominance.
The very fact that hiring is focusing on this group signals to me that this is an area which Facebook takes seriously and wants to be taken seriously in.
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Re:Open-sourcing Facebook Infer: Identify bugs before you ship by mschuster91 on Friday June 12, 2015 @07:47AM (#9705269)
If Facebook ever goes down as a social network, they will without doubt still be a powerful technology company.

FB has achieved a vertical integration in the IT world rivaled only by Google, Apple and maybe MS.

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