Official position of the Program Committees of Highload++ and other IT conferences on claims against Igor Sysoev and Maxim Konovalov
Attack on Igor Sysoev, an outstanding programmer and creator Nginx, a product distributed under a free license, that is, available to everyone for free to use and study the source code, is a blatant act of aggression against the entire industry.
We express our support to Igor, and we want to especially note his contribution to the development of the industry. Igor laid the foundation for the high-quality work of more than 80% of all highly loaded RuNet resources. He and his product became the catalyst that allowed Russian services to be competitive in the global market and take a leading position in the development of projects that can withstand heavy loads.
We establish a prize, present it to the best developers, supporting in every possible way and talking about any developments to which Russian programmers are related. And what do we get as a result? One of the market players, it turns out, is not interested in developing this market.
We would also like to note that claims against open source products in general, and nginx in particular, call into question the economic security of the largest Russian and world services that use nginx and other open source products. In addition, such actions will negatively affect the investment climate in the Russian IT industry and may lead to degradation of the industry itself.
We strongly condemn the actions of the initiators of the persecution, and also call on the technical specialists of these companies to convey to their management the full absurdity and enormity of what is happening.
The situation when every programmer, with any commit to an open source project, must think about the legal safety of his actions, seems to us to be a stopping factor for the development of the industry.
- Oleg Bunin, Chairman of the PC conference of developers of high-load systems HighLoad++
- Evgeniy Borisovich Rossinsky, CTO ivi.ru
- Tsupko Igor Vladimirovich, Flant
- Smirnov Alexander Valerievich, Head of Mobile Raiffeisenbank
- Poborchiy Roman Sergeevich, Performance Coach
- Shorin Andrey Vitalievich, DevOps Consultant
- Gavrichenkov Artyom Vladimirovich, Technical Director of Qrator Labs
- Timur Batyrshin, DevOpsConf PC participant
- Pavlushko Roman Nikolaevich, IT investor, ex-CTO Avito, ex-Software Engineer Rambler
- Andrey Vladimirovich Shetukhin, Leading system architect of ATC, member of PC Highload++
- Nesmeyanov Kirill Maksimovich, Member of PC PHP Russia
- Nesterov Nikolay Igorevich, Member of PC AppsConf
- Podolsky Daniil Markovich, Member of PC Golang Conf
- Kevac Marko, Team Lead in the Platform
- Chainikov Mark Sergeevich, Member of the PC Moscow Python Conf++
- Krasheninnikov Alexander Mikhailovich, Head of Data Processing
- Roman Ivliev, Technical Director, Head of the TeamLead Conf program committee
- Sabirov Evgeniy, Program Director of TechLead Conf
- Mogelashvili Georgy Temurievich, Member of PC TeamLead Conf
- Virna Stern, PC TeamLead Conf member, program director of Aletheia Business
- Alexander Ziza, member of PC TeamLead Conf, Aletheia Business
- Krapivensky Sergey Aleksandrovich, Member of the program committee of the AppsConf conference
- Volynkin Nikolay Vasilievich, member of the KnowledgeConf PC
- Grahovac Elena Yurievna, Head of the PC conference GolangConf
- Olkov Artem Vadimovich, Member of PC AppsConf
- Danila Aleksandrovich Shtan, Technical Director at Yandex.Verticals
- Zhuchkov Mikhail Olegovich, Member of the DevOpsConf PC
- Slotin Andrey, PC member of the GolangConf conference
- Mochalov Roman Aleksandrovich, Member of the PC conference AppsConf
- Filonov Vladimir Aleksandrovich, TechLead Takeoff Technologies Inc
- Kolesnikov Andrey Sergeevich, Member of PC Product Fest
- Simonova Anna Konstantinovna, Product Fest conference manager
- Tokarev Evgeniy Andreevich, Member of the ScalaConf PC
- Konstantin Osipov, Architect and Tarantool contributor
- Stolyarov Dmitry Olegovich, CTO Flant
- Shurupov Dmitry Valentinovich, co-founder and technology evangelist Flant
- Yants Vladimir Igorevich, Badoo Engineer
- Kalneus Leonid, Member of PC Highload++ Siberia
- Makarov Alexander Sergeevich, Core developer Yii framework
- Kolashtov Andrey Sergeevich, Head of Engineering Flant
- Ermakov Petr Dmitrievich, Founder DataGym
- Fomkin Alexey Yurievich
- Rovinskaya Anna Pavlovna, Event Manager
- Akilin Alexander Alekseevich, Systems Engineer Aquiva Labs
- Alexander Gorny, Co-founder of United Investors
- Kruglov Ivan, Member of PC Highload++
- Lapshin Maxim Evgenievich, owner of Erlivideo
- Oleg Bartunov, HighLoad++ award winner
- Tolstoy Egor, Product Manager, head of PC ProductFest
- Karamyzova Elizaveta, PC coordinator PHP Russia and FrontendConf
- Zaika Sergey Sergeevich, member of the KnowledgeConf PC
- Novikova Svetlana Aleksandrovna, Member of the KnowledgeConf PC
- Evgeniy Grin, GNU libmicrohttpd co-maintainer, Kodi team member, InoThings PC member
- Petrova Ekaterina Petrovna, Member of PC AppsConf
- Burkalev Konstantin Sergeevich, Software architect
- Maxim Tsepkov, mtsepkov.org, member of PC Knowledge Conf
- Yamshchikov Ivan Pavlovich, Scientist
- Akulovich Alexey Vladimirovich, Key programmer-developer of VKontakte
- Obukhovskaya Zlata Nikolaevna, head of the Nvidia development group
- Mikheev Gleb Andreevich, Head of PC FrontendConf
- Kuznetsov Vyacheslav, DevOpsConf PC Member
- Krapivny Nikolay, Member of PC TeamLead Conf
- Valentin Dombrovsky, Member of the Moscow PythonConf++ PC
- Nikolay Aleksandrovich Samokhvalov, Founder of Postgres.ai
- Alexey Rybak, PC Member HighLoad++
- Alexey Ramensky, Founder of Russian Digital Week
- Milovidov Alexey Nikolaevich, ClickHouse developer, HighLoad++ award winner
Source: habr.com