Venture capitalists aside, Mark Zuckerberg knows who his real friends are and gives Apache Software Foundation $40,000 as a Gold sponsor. 

He may not be concious of it while inside his dorm room back then but definitely, the spirit of open source was hovering and fully present as David Recordon writes:

From the day Mark Zuckerberg started building Facebook in his Harvard dorm room in 2004, the site has been built on common open source software such as Linux, Apache, memcached, MySQL, and PHP. In that time, we've open sourced more than 20 different technologies, and scaled Facebook to reach over 350 million people around the world. Today we are pleased to announce that we are becoming a Gold sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), which has been instrumental in fostering open source adoption and providing structure to build successful open source communities.

 

Which brings us to another point. It's time to take a few minutes off facebook and learn more about open source and the Apache Software Foundation.  As webbies, a lot of us (especially at G2iX) owe them more than a debt of gratitude. 

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Facebook Sponsors the Open Source Apache Software Foundation

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