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B/OSS World: BT's Pardee Urges Telcos to Get Behind Open Source
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| Now is the time to branch into open source. That was the assertion from Maria
| Pardee, managing director of global integration for BT in her keynote address
| Tuesday at the Billing & OSS World Conference & Expo.
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http://www.billingworld.com/news/expo/pardee-urges-telcos-to-get-behind-open-source.html
Recent:
Community Live - Osmosoft's TiddlyWiki Hackathon and Pizza on Rails
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| Osmosoft is a name that not too many people have heard of. It is an
| unconventional part of BT, working as a hot house open source lab and
| focussing its development on TiddlyWiki.
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http://www.heise-online.co.uk/open/Community-Live-Osmosoft-s-TiddlyWiki-Hackathon-and-Pizza-on-Rails--/features/111336
BT joins enterprise open-source community
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| The communications and IT giant has already been a member of the Linux
| Foundation since 2005. According to a Wednesday statement, BT joined
| FossBazaar because it wants to help "accelerate the adoption of free and
| open-source software in business". Apart from the Linux Foundation, other
| sponsors of FossBazaar include HP, Novell, Google and SourceForge.
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http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/0,1000000085,39452068,00.htm?r=1
BT In Trouble Over Secret Behavioral Ad Tests
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| Did BT illegally test a new online advertising system on their customers
| without consent? That's currently what British prosecutors are trying to
| determine.
|
| BT GroupAll the fuss stems from a document that was leaked back in June which
| showed that BT had held a two-week test, which involved 18,000 subscribers
| back in September and October 2006 without them knowing.
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/11/28/bt-in-trouble-over-secret-behavioral-ad-tests
BT silences customers over Phorm
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| BT has banned all future discussion of Phorm and its "WebWise" targeted
| advertising product on its customer forums, and deleted all past threads
| about the controversy dating back to February.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/19/bt_phorm_censor/
BT Bans Talking About Phorm, Erases Earlier Discussions
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| Is it really so hard to allow open discussion on such a topic? If BT believes
| that it's reasonable to use the technology, then why not explain why clearly,
| responding to the critics? The only reason to erase these discussions is if
| BT knows that what's it's doing is highly questionable, and BT would rather
| not have to explain itself.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20081123/1145582926.shtml
Police quiz BT on secret Phorm trials
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| City of London police questioned BT earlier this week as part of a probe into
| the covert wiretapping and profiling of the internet use of tens of thousands
| of BT customers during tests of Phorm's adware system.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/05/bt_phorm_police_meeting/
Phorm papers reveal BT's backwards approach to wiretap law
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| BT's long-held claim that legal advice said its Phorm trials did not breach
| wiretapping laws came under renewed scrutiny today, as documents revealed the
| firm approached government experts after it had secretly co-opted 18,000
| broadband customers into the advertising targeting system.
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| Papers obtained from the Home Office under the Freedom of Information Act
| show that the department was first contacted about Phorm on 15 November 2006.
| The first secret trial of the system conducted by BT Retail ran between 23
| September and 6 October that year.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/11/home_office_phorm_bt_foi_dates/
Related:
Open source in BT
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| Yesterday we had an open source event in BT's auditorium called "Open
| source - open for business". If you'll excuse the rather corporate-sounding
| title, it was actually a really cool day. There were elements of preaching to
| the converted - a large proportion of the audience were already open source
| advocates - but I'm sure those who were new to the subject would've left the
| event inspired by how compelling the argument in favour of open source has
| become.
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http://philwhitehouse.blogspot.com/2007/11/open-source-in-bt.html
BT powers up to save money
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| It came up with a plan to replace 13 Windows and Unix servers with just two
| Dell 2850s running Linux and VMware server virtualisation technology.
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http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,22552048-24169,00.html
BT Joins Linux Phone Standards Forum
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| The Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum, adding to the growing momentum of
| standards-based mobile Linux, announced today that BT PLC [LSE: BT Group] has
| joined the consortium and will participate in the group's specification and
| standardization activities
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http://www.embedded-computing.com/news/db/?8517
BT says 'enough' on GPL
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| BT has published much of the relevant code here and clearly believes
| it has done more than enough to comply with the GPL.
|
| But the Free Software Foundation Europe remains unimpressed.
|
| They told us: "Armijn Hemel of gpl-violations.org analysed the
| source code and said that some of the necessary code is missing.
| For example, a top level Makefile and the scripts that would be
| used to properly generate a firmware image have not been included.
| A script or file with the uClibc configuration is also mandatory.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/29/bt_says_enough_gpl/
Popular broadband router open to VoIP hijacking
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| Until BT issues a patch, users can mitigate the risk by using the Firefox
| browser and the NoScript extension.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/21/bt_home_hub_voip_hijacking/
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