Rapid-I = WEKA + UI?

[alexsee]

Hi all,

I think it problematic when Open Source projects include other OS projects entirely. A current example is Rapid-I (earlier YALE), which includes WEKA completely. Now I have contributed lots of code to WEKA, but cannot see that Rapid-I/YALE has ever contributed code in return for their "ursurpation" of WEKA code. Basically, most people "forget" that WEKA has made Rapid-I possible, and so WEKA and YALE can be different options for a DM poll - IMHO a bit problematic.

I have not worked with Rapid-I, and do not intend to. From the feature list, I would classify it as WEKA plus a fancy user-interface - all the stuff about XML format to store settings, combining classifiers, filters, etc.. has been in WEKA almost from the start (I was there - the Experimenter goes back a long way...). If you strike out the features that come from WEKA, almost nothing is left except information visualization, and that is almost by definition "fancy interface" ;-)

I'd like the opinion of independent people who have worked with Rapid-I _and_ WEKA on this. I'll discount all replies by Rapid-I/YALE or WEKA/Pentaho directly related people and would ask you to reveal your affiliation in the reply.

I am loosely affiliated with WEKA, and know most people from the team personally. I was shocked when I found out how Rapid-I makes a lot of money out of what is essentially WEKA's achievement.
Let's discuss.