Exactly Ted, and just trying to be respectful of this being an Apache mailing list.
Snarky behavior devalues everyone's efforts, so trying to head that off as it doesn't have any place on a community list or forum. From: Ted Dunning <tdunn...@maprtech.com> To: user@hadoop.apache.org, Cc: serge.blazhiyevs...@nice.com Date: 09/20/2012 05:50 AM Subject: Re: IBM big insights distribution On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 5:24 AM, Michael Segel <michael_se...@hotmail.com> 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.
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