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From: Neil Horman <nhorman-2XuSBdqkA4R54TAoqtyWWQ@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: Making DPDK.org more vendor neutral
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 16:55:11 -0500
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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