This episode is witness to a riveting discussion about the usage of FLOSS in the telecoms industry. Which goes back approximately fifty years with Ericsson (a large Swedish telco equipment manufacturer) coming up with Erlang, a programming language still prominently used in projects such as RabbitMQ. Listen to our two heroes apply their semi-existent knowledge about FLOSS in general and telecommunications in particular in this mind-boggling episode. Plus bonus content in the shape of a crash course on the history of the telecom industry, a peek behind the scenes of iOS (or to put it another way: the gory details of this mobile operating system that you have always wanted to know but were afraid to ask) and outlook to a future episode of your beloved podcast (gasp!). Consider yourself warned (to some extent anyway :-).

Links

• First iPhone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_(1st_generation)
• Erlang (/OTP): https://www.erlang.org
• Elixir: https://elixir-lang.org
• Android Open Source Project (AOSP): https://source.android.com/
• iOS: https://developer.apple.com/ios
• Mach: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/mach/public/www/mach.html
• Asterisk: https://github.com/asterisk/asterisk
• OpenStack: https://www.openstack.org
• Verizon hack: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/08/27/chinese-government-hackers-penetrate-us-internet-providers-spy
• Linux Foundation network projects: https://lfnetworking.org/projects
• Camara: https://github.com/camaraproject
• What we do in the shadows: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7908628/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_1