It would be more accurate to say that the participants who help people on this list are volunteers. There is absolutely no constraint on the topic material relative to whether it involves a profit motive. Topicality matters, but not profitability.
Many of the participants are engaged in for-profit work and many of the questions answered here relate to problems whose solutions are intended as for-profit enterprises. Those who maintain the list are also mostly volunteers. So it would be more accurate to describe matters as that many people on the list aren't willing to do your job or your school homework for you, but many will answer lots of questions if you are simply specific enough about the questions so that the questions and answers taken together will benefit some other reader of the list. On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 1:08 AM, Bertrand Dechoux <[email protected]>wrote: > This is a *not-for*-*profit *mailing list. You might want to describe > more precisly what are your questions. > You have a problem (medical diagnosis) and you choose a technical solution > for it Hadoop. >
