How many Java drivers could you point out? Doesn’t it strike you slightly off that you’d not have a driver for a DB in the same project you found the DB?
> On Jun 3, 2016, at 8:51 PM, Dave Brosius <dbros...@mebigfatguy.com> wrote: > > There are many drivers for cassandra, supplied by various individuals and > groups, one of those drivers was started by people at datastax which is > available as an opensource project. > > The open source project is not open to any random person on the internet to > commit to (just like any open source project), so i suppose in that regard > there is some 'control'. But i doubt that is what you are fishing for. > > --dave > > (not affiliated with datastax) > > On 06/03/2016 10:29 PM, Chris Mattmann wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I’m investigating something a few ASF members contacted >> me about and pointed out, so I’m hoping you can help >> guide me here as a community. I have heard that a company, >> DataStax, whose marketing material mentions it as the only >> Cassandra vendor, “controls” the Java Driver for Apache >> Cassandra. >> >> Of course, no company “controls” our projects or its code, >> so I told the folks that mentioned it to me that I’d investigate >> with my board hat on. >> >> I’d like to hear the community’s thoughts here on this. Does >> anyone in the community see this “controlling” behavior going >> on? Please speak up, as I’d like to get to the bottom of it, >> and I’ll be around on the lists, doing some homework and reading >> up on the archives to see what’s up. >> >> Thanks for any help you can provide in rooting this out. >> >> Cheers, >> Chris >> >> >> >> >> >
