eBay Pushes Open Source Development
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I am actually curious as to what eBay’s real interest is in Open Source. I mean, I think it’s great that they are showing an interest, but seriously - what’s up?
eBay is attempting to greenhouse the development of applications built on its Web services using the allure of open source. At its 2005 Developers Conference, eBay announced its Community Codebase program to provide developers with a place to collaborate and unleash their creative energies on open source projects.
To see its developers off to a good start, eBay has seeded the site with sample code including a proof-of-concept TiVo application that allows TiVo users to bid and search for items in eBay auctions. Other seeded code projects are an Eclipse plug-in and an eBay themed Firefox toolbar. [Read the rest]