[deleted] OP t1_iz0sxof wrote on December 5, 2022 at 5:10 PM

Reply to comment by suflaj in [D] Are ML platforms honestly useful or just money-making on software that's really free? by [deleted]

I think along the lines that software platforms should be FOSS, hardware resources should cost, and apps (userland) can be anything. But I don't buy into the idea of vendor lock-in on hardware that can essentially run anything.

suflaj t1_iz0w24l wrote on December 5, 2022 at 5:31 PM

Well, that is your opinion, as I said, you are free to develop and offer such software to people, as many, ex. Apache, do.

I was under the impression that your assertion had something to do with the platforms itself, not politics.

[deleted] OP t1_iz0wzgn wrote on December 5, 2022 at 5:37 PM

Well yes in the sense that DataBricks is from creators of Spark so one may perceive that it's just "enterprise Spark", where the product is essentially quite same, but it's just sold as a service.

suflaj t1_iz11s02 wrote on December 5, 2022 at 6:07 PM

Azure Databricks is Apache Spark-based, but it is made by Microsoft, which is obviously not Apache. Furthermore, Apache Spark does not compare to Databricks, nor is it published under a copyleft license, so this again seems like product and ideology incompatibility rather than an objective reason.