As a community observer, I see some tension between vendor marketing efforts that *some* may consider to be disparaging of Apache community efforts and work product (for example the HDFS file system); and good faith efforts from the same vendors to participate in Apache community efforts and work product, in other areas. That tension seems unavoidable to me and is something vendors and the community will come to terms with over time. An easy way to minimize potential conflict, however, is to redirect vendor specific discussion to vendor mailing lists and forums. Seems a no-brainer.
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 5:49 AM, Ted Dunning <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 5:24 AM, Michael Segel <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Why is it that when anyone asks a question about IBM Tom wants to take it >> off line? >> >> Not very social. > > > Well, giving the mesquite broiling that anyone gets if they even mention any > product competitive with certain Hadoop distributions, I tend to do that as > well. I have even gotten private threatening emails telling me not to > attend public Apache events. > > Not social. Check. Doesn't help the group find out about alternatives. > Check. > > But it lowers the temperature on my side of the keyboard to not mention MapR > in public. I imagine that Tom feels much the same way. -- Best regards, - Andy Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein (via Tom White)
