I should have thought that guice and guava collections are pretty important,
no?

On 18 August 2010 19:18, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote:

> > 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. :)
>
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