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There are two aspects of "openness" (or freedom) that affect social networking; the license covering the source code of social networking software, and whether the internetworking protocol used is proprietary ("data silo" or "walled garden"), or a free/ open standard (made up one or more free/ open protocols), allowing for "federated" or [[Distributed_Social_Network_Projects|"distributed" social networks]]. | |||
--[[User:Strypey|Strypey]] ([[User talk:Strypey|talk]]) 04:53, 2 August 2016 (UTC) | |||
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= Discussing open source social networking options such as elgg, buddypress, drupal and others
URL = http://testbp.org/groups/open-source-social-networking-1189558228
There are two aspects of "openness" (or freedom) that affect social networking; the license covering the source code of social networking software, and whether the internetworking protocol used is proprietary ("data silo" or "walled garden"), or a free/ open standard (made up one or more free/ open protocols), allowing for "federated" or "distributed" social networks. --Strypey (talk) 04:53, 2 August 2016 (UTC)