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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, September 30 2012 @ 11:56 AM EDT |
There's also detailed discussion
about this on
Hacker News.
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| Authored by: BJ on Sunday, September 30 2012 @ 12:32 PM EDT |
Going by your assertions, specif. 'The field of "Big Data" ... is
estimated to be a $16.5 billion market by IDC.' and the one
about Google 'open sourcing' its paper on MapReduce (I re-
member it was an interesting read :-) and its implementations
across the industry, with these two assertions and the implied
causality, I would say they go a long way towards another
statement, namely that keeping or setting knowledge free can
be a big boost to an entire market/economy.
bjd
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, September 30 2012 @ 12:53 PM EDT |
As I see it, it a question of citizens acting independently
and exersizing free choice. No government really wants
that, although they may say somthing to the contrary. For
the same kind of thinking, A$ and M$ want to eliminate any
competition so people have no free choice in excersizing
their independence. Android spreads independence, makes
people less dependent and free to spend their money where
they like. A$ and M$ do not want that. Many believe that
there is tacit governmental support for M$'s and A$'s
behaviour as it solves several problems: 1) Makes lots of
"bribe" money available for the polititions, 2) reduces
the opportunity for citizens to excersize free choice and
act independently, and 3) increases the potential for
secret, govermental control of all personal communication
devices that could be used by citizens in ways that the
government may not like.
In any event, the trend is an accelerating downward spiral
that will result in a crash that no one, even the well
connected, will be able to escape from.
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