> It's more that the financial, logistical, and personnel aspects of getting such a difficult project completed and used by anyone would drown out all of the f

> It's more that the financial, logistical, and personnel aspects of getting such a difficult project completed and used by anyone would drown out all of the fun. Nailed it. I would argue that MapR is basically a company that did exactly this and figured out a way to monetize it by packaging it as part of a map/reduce system.