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[Alex Balashov]

If we are going to have a cultured and dignified relationship between 
the Kamailio and OpenSIPS camps, which I assume is the goal of everyone 
for reasons of commercial self-preservation if nothing else, then the 
provocations need to stop from both sides.

No, it is not very upstanding to come on the OpenSIPS list only to 
remind its members that you don't use OpenSIPS and that Kamailio is much 
better.  Whether you think it's true or not, the OpenSIPS list is not 
the appropriate forum in which to air that thought;  it's just not polite.

The values and focus of every community must be respected, and this 
mailing list belongs to the OpenSIPS community and development team. 
There's a certain degree of "when in Rome..." that should be obeyed.

I'm a very committed Debian user, and intensely dislike Redhat-derived 
distributions.  But if I am on a mailing list centered chiefly around 
Fedora, CentOS, RHEL, etc. or products based on them, it's just not my 
place to bring up Debian or invite an RH vs. Debian flame war.  That's 
just not what the list is for, and my ability to join it and ask a 
question is a privilege, not a right.

That having been said, the provocations need to stop from both sides as 
I said above.  That includes tongue-in-cheek comments that imply 
Kamailio defects or fundamental technical or political inferiorities, or 
ones that attempt to explain user perceptions of OpenSIPS in an ad 
hominem manner by way of some kind of Kamailio affiliation or anything 
like that.

Just don't do it.  It's bad for business, it's bad for both products, 
it's bad for everyone.  NOBODY wins if commercial adopters see this kind 
of petty bickering and egotism, especially from lead developers and 
other significant stakeholders in the commercial ecosystem.

-- 
Alex Balashov
Evariste Systems
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