Building Mortar’s Open Source Community: Announcing Public Plans by K. Young.
From the post:
We’re big fans of GitHub. There are a lot of things to like about the company and the fantastic service they’ve built. However, one of the things we’ve come to admire most about GitHub is their pricing model.
If you’re giving back to the community by making your work public, you can use GitHub for free. It’s a great approach that drives tremendous benefits to the GitHub community.
Starting today, Mortar is following GitHub’s lead in supporting those who contribute to the data science community.
If you’re improving the data science community by allowing your Mortar projects to be seen and forked by the public, we will support you by providing free access to our complete platform (including unlimited development time, up to 25 public projects, and email support). In short, you’ll pay nothing beyond Amazon Web Services’ standard Elastic MapReduce fees if you decide to run a job.
A good illustration of the difference between talking about ethics (Ethics of Big Data?) and acting ethically.
Acting ethically benefits the community.
Government grants to discuss ethics, well, you know who benefits from that.