If this has helped to promote broader discussion of the deeper question of values--freedom and community vs. pure convenience--that is a good thing.

FORBES: Free Vs. Open

Hbasecon highlights the growing importance of the open-source community as leaders in expanding the pure performance and capability as the big data market rapidly expands.

FORBES: Hadoop Alpha Geeks Disrupting The Rapidly Growing Big-Data Market

In both, a self-reliant frontiersman typically served as a bridge between wild nature and community, often demonstrating that for all the gains civilization brought, something noble and pure was being lost.

FORBES: Steve Jobs, Ted Kaczynski and America's Tech Schizophrenia