Re: Msft.... (renamed thread)

[Ryan Rawson <ry...@gmail.com>]

Stack can talk about this, but essentially for a period he could
contribute to HBase only, but not to Hadoop.  As you note, since Stack
has joined my former employer the situation is good now.

While it might be technically correct to say that MSFT has supported
HBase in the past, this is a legalistic view imo, since ultimately I
dont think that powerset uses HBase anymore.

-ryan

On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Andrew Purtell <ap...@apache.org> wrote:
> When Microsoft acquired Powerset, Stack and Jim were still working there, but were disallowed by policy to contribute to HBase ... for months. My understanding is this was due to concerns about intellectual property -- open source fright?. Anyway, it was a disruptive period for the project that was resolved when Stack left.
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> Best regards,
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>    - Andy
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>>________________________________
>>From: Doug Meil <do...@explorysmedical.com>
>>To: "dev@hbase.apache.org" <de...@hbase.apache.org>
>>Sent: Tuesday, August 2, 2011 4:43 AM
>>Subject: Msft....  (renamed thread)
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>>This is a reasonably interesting history question.  Powerset folks were
>>working on Hbase in 2007, but per...
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>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powerset_%28company%29
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>>...  Microsoft didn't buy Powerset until mid-2008.  But that's all in the
>>past.
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>>However, Microsoft is currently a platinum sponsor of the Apache Software
>>Foundation...
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>>http://www.apache.org/foundation/thanks.html
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>>... along with Google and Yahoo, which means they all each donate at least
>>$100k per year to ASF.
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>>So in an extended financial sense, Msft "supports" Hbase by way of their
>>donation to ASF, but they also support everything else in ASF, just like
>>the rest of the big donors.
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>>On 8/1/11 10:56 PM, "Ryan Rawson" <ry...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>No one at powerset is currently contributing to HBase.  "Was" is the
>>>key here - in the past, etc.
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>>>I guess MSFT never got to integrating the HBase API with the C# LINQ
>>>system and Visual Studio.  Maybe it's that azure table services?
>>>
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>>>On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Fuad Efendi <fu...@efendi.ca> wrote:
>>>>>
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>>>>>re:  "Is it really-really supported by Microsoft employees?!"
>>>>>
>>>>>It is really, really not.
>>>>>
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>>>> I believe Hbase was contributed to Apache by a Powerset, currently owned
>>>> by Microsoft; and (same contributors) were full-time supporting Hbase
>>>>and
>>>> having salaries from Microsoft for at least a year; it was first
>>>> (implicit) contribution from Microsoft to Apache.
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