Facebook Killer Diaspora Releases Source Code

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After mixed reception, the Diaspora team has released the source code of the project. Many bloggers were criticizing the 'non-free' manner in which the product was developed. Sometimes the code is so messy and ugly that you may feel shy to release it publicly. I think (its my assumption and not allegation) Diaspora team might have needed some time to clean up the code and now they are ready with it.

The team has released the code under under Free Software Foundation's AGPL or 'Affero General Public License version 3'. Free Software Foundation is fighting to keep users out of claws of corporates who try to take control of their computing.

Diaspora is using GitHub version control system. GitHub is a web-based hosting service for projects that use the Git revision control system. Linus Torvalds developed the Git version control system to maintain the kernel of world's most powerful and advanced operating system GNU/Linux.

Diaspora is now open to an army of Free Software/Open Source developers to take down the 800 pound Gorilla called Facebook.

Much of the success of Diaspora depends on its transparency and giving control in the hands of users and not a corporates like Facebook. Diaspora also gives hints towards a new world order -- 'for the people, by the people' run IT businesses as compared to dictatorial corporate run businesses.

A Dispora blog announced the release of source code today, "Today we are releasing the source code for Diaspora. This is now a community project and development is open to anyone with the technical expertise who shares the vision of a social network that puts users in control. From now on we will be working closely with the community on improving and solidifying Diaspora."

If you are a Free Software/Open Source developer you can join the team. Things we are working on next for our Alpha in October:
According to the blog, teams priorities are:

* Facebook Integration
* Internationalization
* Data Portability

These are our current priorities, for more detail check out our roadmap.

Much of our focus this summer was centered around publishing content to groups of your friends, wherever their seed may live. It is by no means bug free or feature complete, but it an important step for putting us, the users, in control. Developers, our code is on github, our tracker is public, we have a developer mailing list, and we are happily accepting patches.

Source : http://www.muktware.com/

Hopefully, a social network that becomes truly open, and not a personal information exploiter.