In an interview with ITworld Doug Cutting, creator of Apache Hadoop and Apache Lucene explains how he got into open source. “The company went bankrupt and all the software was swallowed into some intellectual property black hole,” Cutting told ITworld. “Open Source seemed to offer the option to have the software that I’d written, this particular one, Lucene, live on and have the opportunity for people to use it.”
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