Re: Just exactly why is Oracle so pissed off?
"Google is more known as a free rider on technologies developed somewhere else than a huge contributor - it opens only projects it needs other people to contribute hugely for its own benefit."
Yeah, the opposite of that is true. Hadoop, for instance, is based on Google GFS. Kubernetes is from Google Borg. How would Google benefit from open sourcing a portion of the tech they already have running in their own data centers, and have been running for years? It's not like the Google engineers said "we can't figure out GFS, see if you can finish it for us". It was in prod for years. I don't think Google even runs Hadoop. They use BigTable, Spanner. That is really just Google giving things away with no payoff for them. It is good will. If they were trying to make money, they would have just created Hadoop as licensed software which you could only buy from Google.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
