<i>&quot;Since these things happened on the same day, some have mistakenly assumed that they were related.&quot;</i><p>Huh? How could you <i>not</i> think two announcements about the same service on the same day by the same company were related?<p>Facebook totally could have spun this as &quot;We&#x27;re open sourcing Parse! (oh, and deprecating parse.com)&quot; but a blog post called &quot;Moving On&quot; wouldn&#x27;t have been the way to do it.<p>Regardless, releasing an open source version of the service you&#x27;re shutting down is a hell of a lot more than most companies would do, so kudos to Facebook&#x2F;Parse for that.