It's questionable as if spark every would've been nearly as successful of a product if they had done this.
Sparks success is that it came out of Berkeley, was better than traditional map reduce in a number of ways initially, but more than that it was able to spread because a lot of map reduce product providers were able to push it for their clients because of it's apache license explicitly.
Sparks success is that it came out of Berkeley, was better than traditional map reduce in a number of ways initially, but more than that it was able to spread because a lot of map reduce product providers were able to push it for their clients because of it's apache license explicitly.