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Re:Why I Left Oracle – A Confession by lgieron on Saturday March 05, 2016 @08:15PM (#11231995)
Not always - I can't see FOSS like Hadoop or Spark benefitting anyone except large corporations and (maybe) universities.
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Re:Why I Left Oracle – A Confession by the_af on Saturday March 05, 2016 @08:22PM (#11232019)
Of course, not everything is useful in the same way. In any case, being useful to public universities alone is a big win.

But in my opinion, any software being FOSS is benefitial, even if you cannot deploy it yourself for your toy projects. If anything, you get to play with it or learn from its source. Maybe parts of it are useful to you for your own project. You cannot do this easily (if at all) with closed proprietary software.

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Re:Why I Left Oracle – A Confession by mystikal on Saturday March 05, 2016 @08:25PM (#11232028)
Governments are large organizations that are supposed to represent and benefit everyone.
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