We don't have one. Isn't this thread about adding a list
of NHibernate-related (commercial) tools to NHForge?

On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Fabio Maulo <[email protected]> wrote:

> Which is the page of the tools ?
>
> On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Jason Dentler <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Haven't we crossed this bridge already? We have a book page. No matter how
>> (very very very) little the hourly rate may be for authors, it's still a
>> commercial product.
>>
>> Having said that, if someone were to write a significant NHibernate eBook
>> and distribute it for free, I'd still expect to find it on the book page.
>>
>> By this same logic, I think the "significant" open source tools like FNH
>> should be included in any list of add-on tools. In my mind, the distinction
>> between open source / non-profit and for-profit is arbitrary.
>>
>> My two cents
>> - Jason
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Fabio Maulo <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> Hopefully we can have all opinions of all vendors here...
>>>
>>> Perhaps we (NH team) are worried about something that for you (vendors)
>>> is not a problem.
>>>
>>> In practice we can give you a space in NH-Forge, you can blog a review of
>>> your product and so on but what you can't do is start a commercial war and
>>> involve us.
>>>
>>> If you can come in a sort of agreement, we are open to hear proposal
>>> about how give more visibility to commercial products inside
>>> www.nhforge.org
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 9:33 AM, sbohlen <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> NOTE: This is a continuation of a discussion branch that began in this
>>>> thread of the NHUSERS group:
>>>>
>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/nhusers/browse_thread/thread/166cd3b0e77c9e35/056321a3ec570d3b
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ----
>>>>
>>>> Frans:
>>>>
>>>> Uh....I'm honestly a bit confused by your response as I think we're
>>>> going to have to declare that we seem to be "in violent agreement" on
>>>> (nearly) all of these points.
>>>>
>>>> From reading your comments, my concerns appear to be yours as well: I
>>>> too am interested in an area of NHForge that can assist adopters of NH
>>>> in finding commercial tools to improve their "NH experience" but in
>>>> such a way that the NHForge site itself (and by extension the NH team)
>>>> isn't directly involved in endorsing, ranking, commenting, or
>>>> otherwise doing anything that would make it appear as if one vendor or
>>>> tool was better/worse than any other vendor/tool (e.g., NH is able to
>>>> maintain its neutrality).
>>>>
>>>> My list of 'principles' that I tried to enumerate in my post seemed
>>>> (to me, at least) a reasonable set of guidelines to enable us to
>>>> achieve exactly those goals (providing visibility for such offerings
>>>> while maintaining neutrality).  I think remaining neutral is 'good
>>>> practice' in re: NH's relation with commercial tools/projects, but
>>>> frankly I think its equally good practice in re: NH's relation with
>>>> open-source and/or free tools/projects as well (e.g., I think it
>>>> equally inappropriate for NH to be 'recommending' one OSS tool over
>>>> another -- just as with commercial offerings).
>>>>
>>>> My suggestion was to find a way to list such products/vendors without
>>>> appearing to 'endorse' or 'rank' them in any manner.
>>>>
>>>> I don't think I said (and I certainly didn't mean to inadvertently
>>>> imply) that there is no place in the NH ecosystem for commercial
>>>> offerings -- quite the reverse, in fact.  I was merely trying to
>>>> suggest that whatever manner is decided upon to attempt to increase
>>>> 'visibility' of such things on the NHForge site be accomplished in
>>>> such a way that NH's neutrality towards any of these offerings remain
>>>> intact.
>>>>
>>>> I certainly recognize that one level of such imperfect neutrality will
>>>> be instantly sacrificed merely by listing a product/vendor on the
>>>> NHForge site, but that's why I indicated that it needed to be very
>>>> clear to any vendor HOW to get their product listed should they want
>>>> to do so (e.g.,  so that it wasn't made to appear that the listed
>>>> vendors/products were in any way part of an "elite club" that over
>>>> vendors were unable to 'join').
>>>>
>>>> I hope this serves to clarify the intent of my comments (even if it
>>>> appears I wasn't entirely clear in my prior content).
>>>>
>>>> -Steve B.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Fabio Maulo
>>>
>>>
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> Fabio Maulo
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