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2008

The only down side is everyone I’ve talked to at Freebase seems pretty solid on this being their proprietary secret sauce, because a good, fast scalable open source tuple store might actually jump start a real semantic (small-S) web after all these years.

Kellan Elliott-McCrea

# 29th September 2008, 3:29 pm / freebase, graphd, kellan-elliott-mccrea, open-source, proprietary, semanticweb

2007

Proprietary Software Does Not Scale. I’ve been thinking this for a while: if you’re using software with a per-CPU license you can’t just roll it out as an image across a bunch of virtual machines when you need to.

# 18th November 2007, 12:30 am / licensing, open-source, proprietary, virtualisation