Broadband Forum Launches Latest Open Source Project to Bring Full Benefits of 5G to Fixed-line Services | Business Wire

The goal of a new Broadband Forum project, Open Broadband – WWC Reference Implementation for 5G-RG (OB-5WWC) is for vendors and operators to bring products to market in a shorter timeframe and enjoy reduced development times and cycles. The Open Source project will bring the full benefits of the 5G ecosystem to fixed-line services and offer a full end-to-end solution to operators.

.NET Foundation boss apologizes for pull request that sparked community row

We covered Littles earlier this week, noting that after he ran for the board on a platform of making it more responsive to developers' needs – rather than Microsoft's. He later quit because, according to a post, "I didn't have the energy to put into an organization that doesn't share my views and stance on what I think the community needs, Sustainable Open Source Software."

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The first comment on the apology described it as "a total non-apology" – a sentiment repeated in other comments. The conversation also features some discussion of how to withdraw projects from the foundation.

The Register suspects the foundation may soon need some new volunteers. Brave new volunteers

Microsoft's .NET Foundation under fire as resigning board member questions its role
[Ed: Microsoft Tim weighs in as well. It's him who helped Microsoft hijack Linux (exporting it to GitHub).]

Questions Raised About .NET Foundation

Littles was elected and took on the role of chair for the Technical Steering Group, hoping to be able to achieve some progress towards Open Source sustainability. However, when he realized that his efforts were futile he resigned from the .NET Foundation board ahead of the 2021 elections which took place in August. He hadn't intended to draw attention to this, but changed his mind when the announcement of the election results reported on his resignation.