Comment Re:Google forced this move (Score 1) 110
Disclaimer: I run the evangelism group at eBay.
I would love to be able to say that eBay or another other company of our size could launch a program as large as this so quickly, but we can't.
I suggest you read Jeremy Zawodny's post on this subject.
We have about 100 web services API calls that let you interact with almost every part of the eBay platform. That's pretty open.
As for free labor, we already have thousands of developers who are producing commercial applications. The sellers powered by these developers generate about 20% of all eBay.com listings. However, these are largely commercial developers.
I want more open source developers to join our community. I'm not going to say otherwise.
Why? Because I'm an open source developer myself. I've been using open source for about 10 years. I first saw Linux in 1993 on my friend's machine. I started using PHP in 1996 (php/fi) and MySQL soon after. (MySQL wasn't available when I first started working on web sites, people used mSQL instead.) I've written two books on PHP for O'Reilly.
There are lots of cool and innovative ways for all types of developers to use our web services and I just want to make sure that everyone is empowered do to so.
-adam
Adam Trachtenberg
I would love to be able to say that eBay or another other company of our size could launch a program as large as this so quickly, but we can't.
I suggest you read Jeremy Zawodny's post on this subject.
We have about 100 web services API calls that let you interact with almost every part of the eBay platform. That's pretty open.
As for free labor, we already have thousands of developers who are producing commercial applications. The sellers powered by these developers generate about 20% of all eBay.com listings. However, these are largely commercial developers.
I want more open source developers to join our community. I'm not going to say otherwise.
Why? Because I'm an open source developer myself. I've been using open source for about 10 years. I first saw Linux in 1993 on my friend's machine. I started using PHP in 1996 (php/fi) and MySQL soon after. (MySQL wasn't available when I first started working on web sites, people used mSQL instead.) I've written two books on PHP for O'Reilly.
There are lots of cool and innovative ways for all types of developers to use our web services and I just want to make sure that everyone is empowered do to so.
-adam
Adam Trachtenberg
