NTT Joins OSDL

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday September 25, 2003 @06:43AM from the tiny-pink-phones-for-kernel-hackers? dept.

craigoda writes "NTT, the world's largest telecommunications company has joined the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) (Japanese) to focus on increasing the availability, clustering, and performance of Linux for use as the infrastructure OS in next generations telecommunications systems. NTT's work on Linux will be done through OSDL's Carrier Grade Linux (CGL) working group. Here is a Dow Jones Business story was released yesterday based on the rumour that NTT was joining. Looking at the OSDL web site, the rumour appears to be true."

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Go Nihon! by cgranade · 2003-09-25 06:48 · Score: 2, Funny

First, the Japanese gov't supports a Linux-based OS, now this. Gotta hand it to the Japanese! yokkatadesuyo!

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Translation by Leffe · 2003-09-25 06:48 · Score: 3, Funny

Here's the babelfish translation:

No wait, it's here.
1. Re:Translation by Clowning · 2003-09-25 06:55 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Reading that gave me a feeling best described as motion-sickness.
2. Re:Translation by Leffe · 2003-09-25 06:58 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Or better: The babelfish effect.
  
  Having a fish swim up your ear can not be a very pleasant experience.
NTT joins OSDL by tandr · 2003-09-25 06:49 · Score: 4, Funny

... which is basically big "Fu.., sorry, Thank You, but No, thank you" to SCO even after memorable trip of McBride to Japan
Memo by grub · 2003-09-25 06:55 · Score: 5, Funny

From: Darl McBride To: Renaissance Ventures Subject: We have 'em on the run! Did you hear that NTT joined with OSDL? They'll be working on our Linux OS for all new projects! Obviously they have come to their senses, email from "l337_d00dx0rzz@hotmail.com" said that NTT would be sending us a large sum of money for licensing. Darl ps: we *could* use another $500 or $600K to make this month's payroll.

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I'm confused by Anonymous Coward · 2003-09-25 06:59 · Score: 5, Funny

Slashdot needs to provide a list of corporations approved by the geek collective, so I can skip reading and get right to the knee-jerk reaction.
1. Re:I'm confused by Xerithane · 2003-09-25 07:32 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Anything that has to do with Japan is cool.
  
  Any company that is headquartered in Japan is approved and good.
  
  If you see the text, "NTT" or "Japan" than you must have a positive knee-jerk reaction, and say things like, "The island of Japan is doing wonderful things to promote the open source initiative, and they truly grasp what open source is. As well as having hot (japanese school girls|blue or pink haired chicks|big robots!)
  
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