Open Source Takes on Telecom
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| In 1999, Mark Spencer needed a phone system for his startup, Linux
| Support Services. The company's aim was to provide technical support
| to businesses and programmers for Linux, an operating system for which
| the source code is free, making it an appealing alternative to
| Microsoft's Windows.
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| Without realizing it at the time, Spencer was at the forefront of a
| movement to bring open source to telecom. By 2001, Voice over Internet
| Protocol (VoIP)--the technology that routes voice calls over data
| networks--had started to take off. And it became clear to Spencer that the
| market was ready for open-source telecom systems.
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http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jul2006/tc20060707_042679.htm
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