I just took a printout of it and will be framing it in my office. :D My vote for Alex B. On Apr 1, 2016 07:27, "Alex Balashov" <abalas...@evaristesys.com> wrote:
> For immediate release: > > ATLANTA, GA (1 April 2016)--Alex J. Balashov, a self-styled > businessman based in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, has a plan to "Make > Kamailio Great Again". > > "Evariste Systems is huge. My name is on the building," said > Balashov of his iconic VoIP consulting brand. > > "And you know what, I have been very successful. Everybody loves me." > > Balashov has capitalised on a contentious election cycle marked by > deep political polarisation, growing income inequality and geopolitical > challenges such as global terrorism. And his sharp message of alarm > about the declining influence of the Kamailio SIP server project has > resonated with increasing numbers in the CxO suite, vaulting him to > the lead in the race for the IETF SIP Working Group nomination, > according to recent polls of primary voters. > > He has been quick to tout his competitive credentials in a tough > global open-source ecosystem. At a recent colloqium on unified > communications, he asked: > > "When was the last time anybody saw us beating, let's say, OpenSIPS > in Git commits? They kill us. I beat OpenSIPS all the time. All the > time." > > As Balashov sees it, a major cause of the beleaguered Kamailio > project's woes lies in its liberal patch acceptance policy and > lax scrutiny of third-party contributions: > > "When GitHub sends its people, they're not sending their best. > They're not sending you. They're not sending you. They're sending > people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those > problems. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're > rapists. And some, I assume, are good people." > > He has proposed a controversial solution that has drawn ire from > liberal ranks in the open-source community, but has also attracted > applause and standing ovations at his speaking engagements: > > "We have to have a firewall around the Kamailio source code. We > have to have an access control list. And in that firewall, we're > going to have a big fat door where commits and pull requests can > come into the master branch, but they have to come in legally. > The firewall will go up, and GitHub will start behaving." > > Balashov's firewall proposal has been met with scorn from critics who > deride it as impractical and quixotic. In particular, commentators > have raised questions about funding and resources as well as GitHub's > willingness to entertain a boundary around a project in its vicinity. > Balashov isn't concerned, however: > > "I will build a great firewall--and nobody builds firewalls better > than me, believe me--and I'll build them very inexpensively. I will > build a great, great stateful packet inspection wall on our border > with GitHub, and I will make GitHub pay for that wall. Mark my words." > > He has also been rebuked by rival IETF leadership candidates for his > often acerbic Twitter remarks directed at Lennart Poettering and the > developers of "firewalld". As he sees it, however, the network effects > of social media are a strength: "My Twitter has become so powerful > that I can actually make my enemies tell the truth." He scoffed at > the suggestion that his characterisations of industry actors behind > the RedHat-led "systemd" movement are misleading: > > "RedHat was the worst Steward of Linux in the history of the kernel. > There has never been a Steward so bad as RedHat. The source code > blew up around us. We lost everything, including all synergies. > There wasn't one good thing that came out of that administration or > them being Stewards of Linux." > > Balashov's idiosyncratic campaign is not standing still. He has proven > to be a capable populist, adapting rapidly to an evolving sense of the > kinds of pronouncements that activate his swelling crowds of devotees. > Along the way, he has deftly deflected calls to subject his policy > proposals to expert review. > > "I know what I'm doing, and I listen to a lot of people, I talk to > a lot of people, and at the appropriate time I'll tell you who > the people are. But I speak to a lot of people, but my primary > consultant is myself, and I have a good instinct for this stuff." > > At a recent gathering of SIP stack interoperability specialists, > Balashov the latest pillar of his platform to "Make Kamailio Great > Again", in view of growing security vulnerabilities in the latest > Kamailio modules: > > "Alex J. Balashov is calling for a total and complete shutdown of > commits entering the master branch from the territory of the European > Union until our project's representatives can figure out what's going > on. According to Netcraft, among others, there are a lot of buffer > overflows in Kamailio by large segments of the EU population." > > _______________________________________________ > SIP Express Router (SER) and Kamailio (OpenSER) - sr-users mailing list > sr-users@lists.sip-router.org > http://lists.sip-router.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sr-users >
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