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Many people have not realised that as soon as they connect to the Internet, the large majority of software frameworks which provide the service are not owned by any corporation and are actually provided by the Community as Open Source.The fact that critical software frameworks which are so important for the world economy are managed by a ruleless system can be difficult to understand.This article introduces the reader to a definition of Open Source, why it has been so successful for the Telcos and the consequences of that change for the industry.

This paper written in collaboration with my brother Dominig, it was published inside 2008 journal of itp (The Institute of Telecommunications Professionals). While the document was shipped only to itp's member. Full book can nevertheless be ordered on line from (here).

Subset related to opensource in Telcos part can be download in PDF from (here)