[Freebase-discuss] Related topics API

[Jason Douglas]

This thread is pointless.

Phil, since you already "know" what our motivations are, then you must also
already know that the best way to spare yourself further disappointment
would be to spend your time elsewhere.

-jason


On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Philip Kendall <
philip-freebase at shadowmagic.org.uk> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 04:49:36PM -0700, Shawn Simister wrote:
> >
> > I believe that Acre was open sourced around the time of the acquisition.
> > All the data tools built in Acre are BSD licensed. The new Freebase site
> is
> > open source and we are continuing to update the Freebase Suggest plugin
> > which is also open source.
>
> What is the mechanism by which non-Google employees can get commit
> access to any of these projects?
>
> > There are very few teams at Google that have open sourced their products
> > to the extent that Freebase has.
>
> Chromium, Android... maybe there aren't that many given the size of
> Google, but there certainly are teams which have gone above and beyond
> what Freebase does as they've open sourced everything.
>
> > We're very proud of the fact that the new Freebase site will be
> > completely powered by our APIs.
>
> Good that you're proud that your 9 months overdue with that. I wouldn't
> be.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Phil
>
> --
>  Philip Kendall <philip at shadowmagic.org.uk>
>  http://www.shadowmagic.org.uk/
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