While aligning with Hortonworks’ business model undoubtedly fits into the equation, there are other factors at play here. From its beginning the company has been vocal about not taking a 100 percent open source approach. In 2013 co-founder and then chief strategy officer Mike Olson wrote in a blog that “pure-play open source companies never survive. That’s a law of nature.”
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