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The openness of Open Application Programming Interfaces

机译：开放式应用程序编程接口的开放性

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As a way to provide services or data to third-party developers, Open Application Programming Interfaces (Open APIs) have gained popularity among the programming community in recent years. Many corporations such as Google, Facebook and Twitter are developing Open APIs for their existing services, and most of them are free of charge. As these free APIs facilitate collaboration between different software platforms, many programmers treat them as alternatives to open source. Yet, some programmers have found this collaboration risky to their independence, and they have started to think about the true meaning of the openness of API. More importantly, the definition of Open APIs is rendered ambiguous through the discursive practices that define 'openness' in contemporary digital culture. Drawing on the political economy of programming and software, this study begins with the historical discussion of openness and its relationship with the power of code in programming. It points out the openness in programming is not only about the accessibility of the source code, but also the liberty to use source code without restriction. This paper then identifies the technical features of Open APIs and examines the subtle power that restricts their openness. It concludes by suggesting ways to critically understand the openness of software and their politics.
机译：作为向第三方开发人员提供服务或数据的一种方法，近年来，开放应用程序编程接口（Open API）在编程社区中越来越受欢迎。许多公司，例如Google，Facebook和Twitter，都在为其现有服务开发Open API，其中大多数是免费的。由于这些免费的API促进了不同软件平台之间的协作，因此许多程序员将它们视为开源的替代方案。但是，一些程序员发现这种协作对其独立性有风险，因此他们开始考虑API开放性的真正含义。更重要的是，开放式API的定义通过在当代数字文化中定义“开放性”的话语实践变得模棱两可。利用编程和软件的政治经济学，本研究从对开放性及其与编程中代码功能的关系的历史讨论开始。它指出了编程的开放性不仅与源代码的可访问性有关，还与自由使用源代码不受限制有关。然后，本文确定了Open API的技术功能，并研究了限制其开放性的微妙功能。最后，通过建议一些方法来批判性地理解软件及其政治的开放性。

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