> The real open source companies are companies that give away important code > like Facebook with *Apache Cassandra <http://cassandra.apache.org/>* and > Twitterhttp://twitter.com/about/opensource
Ohhh "important code", if only you had mentioned that to begin with... here I am going on and on about non-important code! Please, I respect that you have an interest in NoSQL data-stores, and they DO lay the groundwork for some of the most important procrastination sites, but not sure what gives you mandate to define what is important and what is not. Btw. Google holds patent 7,650,331 which covers the Map-Reduce algorithm and they have not used that against Hadoop, CouchDB or any other organization open-sourcing their "important code". > Microsoft heavily sponsored Daryl McBride and company. Yes they liked their agenda and gave them a pad on the back back in 2003. Luckily, even in the US, money and lawyers can't turn water into wine. So I'll rephrase and say seven years instead then. :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
