Google is not doing anything differently here from what they did before. They've been releasing papers instead of code since 2003 [1]. I think overall this has

Google is not doing anything differently here from what they did before. They've been releasing papers instead of code since 2003 [1]. I think overall this has been a good thing. Had they open-sourced, we'd all be using their stuff, but there wouldn't have been the many competing open source big data projects. The fact that the rest of the world was forced to reimplement what google did created a beehive of open source technologies which is going places google never did. [1] http://blog.mikiobraun.de/2013/02/big-data-beyond-map-reduce-googles-papers.html http://blog.mikiobraun.de/2013/02/big-data-beyond-map-reduce...