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>> As you learn more about building out this very large-scale infrastructure, do you ever see the possibility that a Facebook could become a service provider just for its infrastructure?
>> What do you, what do you mean by service provider?
>> Well, in the sense that right now you're just running the Facebook application, but what if some other developer or user said, similar to what Amazon is doing, that they want to use your infrastructure to run their applications in a cloud?
>> Gotcha. Yeah, so one of the things of, one of the values of Facebook is the Facebook platform where we have over 100,000 developers. And I think we're up to several hundred applications today that have over a million users using them. And we've talked about perhaps opening up, or further opening up the application -- excuse me -- the platform by offering compute power for those application developers. And sort of one of the steps that we've already taken to improve that development environment and improve the experience for our developers is just to open-source our platform as well, which we announced a couple of weeks ago.
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