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Facebook announced last night that it will give away Thrift, a core part of its software infrastructure, as open source. Thrift is a software framework that takes one programming language and performs code generation to "create programs that communicate easily and efficiently across many programming languages". A Babel Fish of sorts.
For the geeky explanations, see the Thrift page and download the framework. Thrift, of course, is being distributed through