I've actually checked out FreeSWITCH quite thoroughly. I believe I said before that I've used the app?
There were many of Diego's comments that I agreed with. I don't hate him. I never said I hate him. I think the strongest thing I said was "I'm beginning to think you are just a jerk." As far as i'm concerned, he is. In all honesty you can't behave like an idiot and expect to get your bugs looked at with any seriousness. You can't go onto public communities and rant completely off-topic without expecting some sort of backlash. Is it my fault that googling for Diego Viola turns up rampant lunacy? I think not.
I just think he acts like a troll and I fell for his bait so I felt the need to apologize to a community I feel a certain kinship with. I feel like I let Slashdot down yesterday by feeding the troll after contributing here for almost a decade.
There's no denying the fact that Diego acts like a jerk and posts pro-FreeSWITCH comments all over the internet. He's even admitted so. I don't really think any of my comments were out of line. In fact, I gave him the benefit of the doubt having not run into him on the internet before.
It didn't take too long to see through the agenda. He's a fanboi. Fanbois are annoying.
Nothing he has said here has really given anything positive or helpful to this discussion... Which, let me remind everyone, is about Asterisk and "Vishing" and has nothing to do with FS. Really, though, the problem is with shitty passwords and default settings which is an issue that plagues EVERY app when administered by an idiot.
I'm neither for or against FS for fucks sakes. Can I just drop out of this bullshit conversation now? I tried it and Asterisk serves my needs far better than FS does. Like I said before, we hack the code into smithereens in our labs and for us Asterisk just works. As a matter of fact, my original post in this thread-- http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1421913&cid=29898993 --had many negative things to say about Asterisk's security model. Diego missed my point regarding "BADministrators" completely and launched into his FreeSWITCH agenda. I agreed with many of his comments regarding security models.
I'm through with this. Last post in this thread for me. None of this is really about Asterisk, FreeSWITCH or any VoIP platform. Even the quoted guy is pissed off about the comments being taken out of context. This is just stupid now. It's Mac vs. PC vs. Linux with the names changed to protect the innocent. All of you need to take your Asterisk vs. FreeSWITCH hate-on's back to Kindergarten where behaviour like that belongs. I've honestly never experienced any problems with either the Asterisk or FreeSWITCH community until yesterday.
If people don't like being called jerks then they probably shouldn't be acting like jerks. THE END.