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Re:Rich Hickey on Datomic (2012) [video] by cpach on Thursday September 12, 2019 @08:27AM (#20950629)
Lot’s of companies pay for software. E.g. Windows Server and SQL Server.
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Re:Rich Hickey on Datomic (2012) [video] by TurboHaskal on Thursday September 12, 2019 @09:11AM (#20951001)
Of course they do. I'm criticising those companies that claim that they cannot use certain products because they're not open source, while not open sourcing their own. It is just an oxymoron for not reaching to the wallet.
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Re:Rich Hickey on Datomic (2012) [video] by agumonkey on Thursday September 12, 2019 @08:29AM (#20950643)
Blame it on decades old experienced marketing and salesmen department at Microsoft. I'm not sure Cognitect has any firepower here.
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