From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp.tuxdriver.com (charlotte.tuxdriver.com [70.61.120.58]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A815F1F5 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2015 22:55:17 +0100 (CET) Received: from [2001:470:8:a08:215:ff:fecc:4872] (helo=localhost) by smtp.tuxdriver.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1YHg0Y-0006QB-34; Sat, 31 Jan 2015 16:55:16 -0500 Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 16:55:11 -0500 From: Neil Horman To: Stephen Hemminger Message-ID: <20150131215511.GA28666@localhost.localdomain> References: <20150131204710.2bf9f5fa@uryu.home.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150131204710.2bf9f5fa@uryu.home.lan> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-Spam-Score: -2.9 (--) X-Spam-Status: No Cc: dev@dpdk.org Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Making DPDK.org more vendor neutral X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 21:55:17 -0000 On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 08:47:10PM +0000, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > I think that DPDK.org should be as neutral in all public communications. > > This bothers me: > "If you need some specific drivers or networking stacks, you should contact a company that provides such extensions." > > This tag line is a link to page describing 6wind and other vendors leaves a biased taint > on the initial impression. It would be best to only put in historical data > about the contributing companies and a vague reference to commercial support being > available. > > It is not like kernel.org has links to SUSE and RHEL. We need to make DPDK.org > independent. > I agree. Aspirations to greater neutrality can do nothing but bring in additional developers. Neil