http://simonwillison.net/2008-09-29T15:29:34+00:00Simon Willison2008-09-29T15:29:34+00:002008-09-29T15:29:34+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2008/Sep/29/secretsauce/#atom-tag

<blockquote cite="http://laughingmeme.org/2008/09/29/on-the-freebase-custom-tuple-store-graphd/"><p>The only down side is everyone I’ve talked to at Freebase seems pretty solid on this being their proprietary secret sauce, because a good, fast scalable open source tuple store might actually jump start a real semantic (small-S) web after all these years.</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="http://laughingmeme.org/2008/09/29/on-the-freebase-custom-tuple-store-graphd/">Kellan Elliott-McCrea</a></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/freebase">freebase</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/graphd">graphd</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/kellan-elliott-mccrea">kellan-elliott-mccrea</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/open-source">open-source</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/proprietary">proprietary</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/semanticweb">semanticweb</a></p>

2007-11-18T00:30:18+00:002007-11-18T00:30:18+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Nov/18/proprietary/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2007/11/proprietary-software-does-not-scale.html">Proprietary Software Does Not Scale</a></strong></p> I’ve been thinking this for a while: if you’re using software with a per-CPU license you can’t just roll it out as an image across a bunch of virtual machines when you need to. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/licensing">licensing</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/open-source">open-source</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/proprietary">proprietary</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/virtualisation">virtualisation</a></p>