Hello Pp-otik-ner
It seems that the mentors are adverse to the term "vendor" even though as the
mentees have explained Hadoop, Spark, Gremlin-Scala, gremlin-php, etc. are all
considered "vendors." That is, anything that implements the TinkerPop3 API
regardless of them being commercial or otherwise is a vendor.
With that said (and known), we can continually go back and forth with "No.
'vendor' means this." "Uh uh, it doesn't -- it means this." "That makes no
sense cause to me it means this."
If we are going to get TinkerPop out of the malaise of personal opinions and
arguments about meaning in the English language (in zeitgeist), I say we bring
this to a collective VOTE which includes the whole community (i.e.
gremlin-users@ as well). I would frame the vote as:
"Should TinkerPop abstain from its use of the word 'vendor' (to
categorize graph system and graph language implementers) because, to you, it
strongly implies commercial interest?"
With that vote tally, we can then do accordingly and from then on, no
individual's personal opinion about the meaning of "vendor" will be considered
a valid argument given that language is a socially constructed phenomena.
Thoughts?,
Marko.
http://markorodriguez.com
