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Factual Sees Open Data As Its Future
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| Earlier this month, much to the chagrin of
| some of our readers, I equated the Hadoop-
| focused startup, Cloudera, to Red Hat. My
| argument was that in the late 1990s, open-
| source operating systems and web software
| proved to be major disruptors and helped
| Internet services grow exponentially. About a
| dozen years later, the future of Internet
| services revolves around data and data
| analytics.
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http://gigaom.com/2009/10/13/meet-factual-a-start-up-pushing-open-data/
Recent:
Transparency against malpractic
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| As a result of my new enthusiasm to 'get out more' I found myself listening
| to a detailed and balanced 'non-advocacy' presentation from a respected OSS
| Watch staffer.
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| He explained patiently how open source licencing worked and how it differed
| from proprietary licences. But what he did say whilst looking for an everyday
| resonance to make his points accessible to a non-geek audience, and which
| really sharpened every-one's attention, was that proprietary software was
| built on secret code whereas open source software had transparent code.
|
| Proprietary software IS composed of secret code. You can't read it, you don't
| know what it does (other than what you can see it do), you don't know how it
| does it and you can't change it.
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http://www.siriusit.co.uk/myblog/secret-code-and-the-damage-it-does-to-our-society.html
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