Open-Source Mobile Telephony Goes Legit

[ Thanks to Esther Schindler for this link. ]

""Legacy telecommunications providers have spent a lot of marketing dollars on driving home the 'open source is bad' message," says Garrett Smith, director of marketing and business development at VoIP Supply. "Enterprises know that some of the public and the telecommunications community carry this world view and that their use of open-source telecommunications has the potential to cause 'damage.'"

"Given the souring economy, hemorrhaging corporate bottom-lines and the panic in many a shareholder's eye, will this "as advertised" fear hold sway much longer?"

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