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Not always - I can't see FOSS like Hadoop or Spark benefitting anyone except large corporations and (maybe) universities.
by lgieron 11y ago
Not always - I can't see FOSS like Hadoop or Spark benefitting anyone except large corporations and (maybe) universities.
- the_af 11y agoOf course, not everything is useful in the same way. In any case, being useful to public universities alone is a big win. But in my opinion, any software being FOSS is benefitial, even if you cannot deploy it yourself for your toy projects. If anything, you get to play with it or learn from its source. Maybe parts of it are useful to you for your own project. You cannot do this easily (if at all) with closed proprietary software.
- mystikal 11y agoGovernments are large organizations that are supposed to represent and benefit everyone.