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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. Why should that scare you? by kale77in · · Score: 4, Insightful

    > Why does that scare me?
    > Why does that scare me?

    Seriously, why should the actions of other open source users scare you? They can't take away the OSS you already use. They can't stop other projects working around them, or integrating their contributions into other tools. The OSS that benefits the rest of us will go on. Probably the resources available to a few projects will change; some might even fork -- but that's not something I'd call 'scary'.

  2. Re:Missing someone? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful
    mod parent down, this is not insightful, he misses the point completely:

    this alliance of telco *providers* was formed to fight the telcos because if the telcos have things their way, the providers lose the ability to bargain with them. (it's called monopsony instead of monopoly, look it up on wikipedia)

    They may not ultimately be successful, but at least understand the point of it, the telcos are hardly going to join.