Open source is always friend to the No. 2 player in a market and always the enemy of the top dog.
That appears to be the big lesson after connecting a few dots on various items popping up around the Web.
First David Carr at Baseline notes that Yahoo is a major sponsor of Hadoop, a big open source project designed to replicate Google’s techniques for storing and processing information.
Carr documents how Yahoo has become increasingly cozy with Hadoop and has even swapped a few employees.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=6000