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Serious question, are they building another FreeBase?


But monetized ala Bloomberg


... with infinite pockets at the helm and cronies to spin product to which can support the notion of growth far enough in to the hype cycle to secure returns.

Perhaps their CEO will have the moral fiber to sign a commitment guaranteeing a nontrivial (eg. double digit percentage) of annual expenses (not earnings, I'd wager this is a long way from generating profit) going directly to open source database projects they draw from. I'd wager not.


Brings back the question: What problem does it solve? Content? Because it's really lacking. It seems great for a company search, but we have crunchbase for that. I could get a far more detailed explanation on any technical topic from Wikipedia.




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