[dllthomas]

To my mind it depends a little on what functionality is behind the account. If this is a huge chunk of functionality, that presently depends on their infrastructure but doesn't have to, then I think that's fine (though certainly enough to self-host would be better). If this is basically a thin wrapper and all the actual functionality is in their proprietary server code, then it's hugely disingenuous.

[rjurney]

The code does not depend on the infrastructure. You can execute the Pig code locally on your machine, or on your own hadoop cluster. This really is a 'free' give-away of code.

[dllthomas]

Fantastic! Thanks.