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Completely agreed. Not looking that forward to this.

• logn 13y ago
  Companies like Facebook and Google do a lot though to promote these areas by building great generic tools. Their work in, say, map-reduce has been invaluable to a wide range of applications.
  • devcpp 13y ago
    Again, these applications are important to their customers (advertisers), not to the users. And while the research might be reused somewhere else, these companies are so big that the negative impact to users will be much larger.