+1 for Arun and Todd Alexander Lorenz http://mapredit.blogspot.com
On Jan 4, 2012, at 9:40 AM, Todd Lipcon <t...@cloudera.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Arun C Murthy <a...@hortonworks.com> wrote: >> Other than these technical discussions, I don't see why ASF lists should be >> used to discuss or market products of _any_ vendor for several good reasons: >> # ASF developer community cannot help users of vendor-specific products for >> obvious reasons. >> # It could also lead to vendors spreading FUD about the ASF project while >> downplaying the deficiencies of their products for their own gain. >> >> Of course, feel free to point this out to others yourself. > > +1. If you see me or another Cloudera employee hawking our commercial > products on-list, feel free to point it out. Occasionally a user > brings up CDH, which is Apache licensed and based on the ASF source > and patches available in ASF. I'll answer those questions generally > with pointers back to the ASF-hosted JIRA instance. But you won't find > me trying to sell our paid/closed-source software here. > > -Todd > -- > Todd Lipcon > Software Engineer, Cloudera
