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Major Telco Providers Form Open Source Alliance

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:it is about time they admitted they use OSS stu by Naruki · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    When Clinton lied, millions of sperm died! I bet he is a secret OSS user, too!