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Michael Stack, HBase Project Janitor:
HBase has seen some interesting times, including a period of sponsorship by Microsoft, of all things. Powerset was acquired in July 2008, and after a couple of months during which Powerset employees were disallowed from contributing while Microsoft’s legal department vetted the HBase codebase to see if it impinged on SQLServer patents, we were allowed to resume contributing (I was a Microsoft employee working near full time on an Apache open source project).
HBase has seen some interesting times, including a period of sponsorship by Microsoft, of all things. Powerset was acquired in July 2008, and after a couple of months during which Powerset employees were disallowed from contributing while Microsoft’s legal department vetted the HBase codebase to see if it impinged on SQLServer patents, we were allowed to resume contributing (I was a Microsoft employee working near full time on an Apache open source project).