Boing Boing: “Steward Butterfield, the co-founder of Flickr, has promised that the service will allow any of its commercial competitors the API access needed to help customers switch away from Flickr to a competing service; the only gotcha is that these competitors need to offer the same deal to Flickr to help their customers switch, too.”

Yes, this is old news by now, but this is so profound and sensible that I had to link to it anyway.