On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 9:53 AM, Alan Gates <alanfga...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to add some context to Ted’s complaint. If he is talking > about the incident that I think he is, it happened years before Hortonworks > was founded. (I wasn’t there, but I have heard the story from those who > were.) He was at a Hadoop User Group promoting MapR’s proprietary file > system as better than Hadoop’s HDFS, which was not appreciated. It was not that event. It was about the time of the founding of HW and I was approached and told that there might be "consequences" if I attended an HBase meetup that was upcoming. I have been involved in open source now for about 40 years. That was the first time that I had ever been threatened.
