Introducing Palantir's first open source releases

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Post by regs » Wed, Dec 14, 2011, 5:36 PM UTC

Introducing Palantir's first open source releases
blog.palantir.com

Re: Introducing Palantir's first open source releases

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Post by gbhn » Wed, Dec 14, 2011, 6:09 PM UTC

I think these were the same crowd drawing up plans to sell the government on how to crush wikileaks amid other miscellaneous dirty tricks. (http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-02-11/tech/30050719...)

Re: Introducing Palantir's first open source releases

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Post by Vivtek » Wed, Dec 14, 2011, 6:12 PM UTC

Gah! Cognitive dissonance! How can I assign a good/evil score now?

Re: Introducing Palantir's first open source releases

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Post by jforman » Wed, Dec 14, 2011, 6:30 PM UTC

Vivtek wrote: post #3

Gah! Cognitive dissonance! How can I assign a good/evil score now?

Palantir is definitely True Neutral

Re: Introducing Palantir's first open source releases

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Dec 14, 2011, 6:32 PM UTC

gbhn wrote: post #2

I think these were the same crowd drawing up plans to sell the government on how to crush wikileaks amid other miscellaneous dirty tricks. ( http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-02-11/tech/30050719... )

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Re: Introducing Palantir's first open source releases

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Post by caycep » Wed, Dec 14, 2011, 6:50 PM UTC

it would be interesting to see what the internal divisions of palantir are, and what are their government/defense contracts like vs. their commercial products division.

fight for government money can always get a little dirty. i'm sure good engineering happens there but they will always be colored by the HB Gary episode. plus the fact that partnering with a shady right wing corporate law firm and the HB Gary Federal clown will alway reflect badly on their general common sense judgement...

Re: Introducing Palantir's first open source releases

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Post by jf » Wed, Dec 14, 2011, 6:53 PM UTC

And posted to GitHub no less. Nice!

Re: Introducing Palantir's first open source releases

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Post by rhizome » Wed, Dec 14, 2011, 6:59 PM UTC

Vivtek wrote: post #3

Gah! Cognitive dissonance! How can I assign a good/evil score now?

You wait.

Re: Introducing Palantir's first open source releases

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Post by Karunamon » Wed, Dec 14, 2011, 7:02 PM UTC

caycep wrote: post #6

it would be interesting to see what the internal divisions of palantir are, and what are their government/defense contracts like vs. their commercial products division. fight for government money can always get a little dirty. i'm sure good engineering happens there but they will always be colored by the HB Gary episode. plus the fact that partnering with a shady right wing corporate law firm and the HB Gary Federal…

I am often very perplexed why legitimate comments get downvoted. This is one of those times. WTH everyone, this isn't Reddit.

Re: Introducing Palantir's first open source releases

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Post by ap22213 » Wed, Dec 14, 2011, 7:19 PM UTC

I was surprised to see Swing. Is that still a fairly common foundation for UIs?