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Major Telco Providers Form Open Source Alliance

Posted by Hemos on from the get-together-right-now dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Several major telecom companies have come together to form a new alliance. Founded January 1, 2006 by Alcatel, Ericsson, Motorola, NEC, Nokia and Siemens, "SCOPE", is helping to promote the availability of open carrier grade base platforms based on Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) hardware / software and Free Open Source Software (FOSS) building blocks, and to promote interoperability to better serve Service Providers and consumers. " It's worth noting that a number of these companies have also been OSDL members, pursuing the same agenda.

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  1. Re:Not telcos by RingDev · · Score: 2, Funny

    Agreed, the summary headline is waaaaaaay off.

    In other news the Department of Transportation is cutting up to 30,000 jobs. Companies affected include Ford.

    -Rick

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  2. "Major Telco" by Orrin+Bloquy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Isn't he Cmdr. Taco's ranking officer?

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  3. Thinking out side the box? by AHuxley · · Score: 2, Funny
    Did they fail to sue their way into extra profit or out of debt?
    So now they think open source will save them where the lawyers failed?

    What wonderful words
    open carrier - cant affort to do it in house - lets spread the risk.
    building blocks - hack and patch the real old stuff, sell it back as new.
    interoperability - when it falls over we can blame the others.
    consumers - they get write code, debug and pay.

    What happened to the good old days?
    Roll it out first, fast and faulty.
    Lock the others out and let the cash flow in.

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