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Facebook, the social networking giant with more than 600 million active users (as well as having earned the distinction of the most visited website on the Internet) has had its share of privacy scares in the past; it’s ever-changing Terms of Service policy can make it difficult to keep your private data safe and secure.

Which begs the question: what, exactly, does Facebook do with your data?

How will we know if the open Internet has been replaced by something else? Is the FCC's proposed distinction between the 'Net and "specialized services" the tool we need?

Steve Wozniak and 32 other engineers, programmers, and developers think so.

Some people insist that OpenOffice.org should be call

OSNews: "Other codecs often come up in these discussions. The distinction between the availability of source code and the ownership of the intellectual property in that available source code is critical."

The Open Road: "Red Hat is generally credited as the industry's leading open-source company, but it's a distinction that is as meaningless as it is incorrect."

On CakePHP's Bakery blog Joel Perras has made a new post that, he hopes, will clear up some of the confusion around which versions of PHP will be supported in which CakePHP release.

Following up on a previous post about dependency injection, Giorgio Sironi has posted this new look at when to use dependency injection and when its still better to handle objects individually.

The company said its latest professional media production software includes six distinct bundles because the distinction between Web sites and interactive experiences is blurring.