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There was a time when Microsoft despised open source, because open source essentially meant "Linux," and Linux was a serious threat to Microsoft's operating system business. While that threat remains, open source has become such a big tent that Microsoft increasingly feels at home with a broad array of open-source projects. Nowhere is this truer than in its announced support for Hadoop, the open-source software framework that dominates the Big Data movement.
... even Microsoft likes, he says. Misleading title, as the "Apache Hadoop software library is a framework that allows for the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers using a simple programming model." Definitely GNU, but no more Linux than Apache itself is. Matt goes on to say that
Quoting:Microsoft may well become as ardent an admirer of Hadoop and open source as it once was a warrior against Linux and open source.
Yes, and someday pigs may fly. Give it up, folks. Microsoft now "embraces" open source. Isn't that part of the formula?
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Yes, and someday pigs may fly. Give it up, folks. Microsoft now "embraces" open source. Isn't that part of the formula?