Stephen Fry:
Henry Ford didn’t invent the motor car, Rockefeller didn’t discover how to crack crude oil into petrol, Disney didn’t invent animation, the Macdonald brothers didn’t invent the hamburger, Martin Luther King didn’t invent oratory, neither Jane Austen, Tolstoy nor Flaubert invented the novel and D. W. Griffith, the Warner Brothers, Irving Thalberg and Steven Spielberg didn’t invent film-making. Steve Jobs didn’t invent computers and he didn’t invent packet switching or the mouse. But he saw that there were no limits to the power that creative combinations of technology and design could accomplish.
Not sure it is a sign of how wide spread the Amazon AWS or Hadoop are getting or that Clojure is becoming hotter and hotter, but this project sounds pretty cool:
Crane solves the problems for people running hadoop clusters; write all your config in clojure maps, and simply call (launch-hadoop-cluster config). You can run hadoop jobs from your local REPL, including the provisioning. All the configuration is in clojure. Automated shutdown for clusters when cascading jobs complete is on the way.
A New York Times article questioning the business model for open source. MySQL, RedHat, SpringSource are some of the company names mentioned in the article.
There’s only one company making real money out of open source, and that’s Red Hat
— Simon Crosby, CTO Citrix Systems
Makes you think twice in case you were planning to go with the open source business model.
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