[firemanx]

> Building the era of custom tools just for your company, only to do specific jobs is long gone.

Isn't that the biography of 99% of the open source projects in the big data and distributed processing world? I understand they are open now, but didn't they start as custom tools just for a single company?

It seems like the "error" that Fog Creek made was to not open source Wasabi, though even that seems more like a hindsight has 20/20 vision kind of thing, as open sourcing a project is no small feat, especially to a small software company.