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Vodafone have taken a major step forward, moving their software development into open source. In addition to making some of their own mobile application for download and review. This is a major step forward for mobile telecoms development.Â

“Vodafone Betavine is a research and development space run by Vodafone Group R&D. We aim to encourage collaboration in the area of mobile and internet communications” - http://www.vodafonebetavine.net

Although mobile companies have been releasing code on open source for a while now, which has assisted their development streams, this is a more valuable effort which will have a wider reach. Open collaboration and discussion is the way forward for software development. Open source has come a long way, and has spawned new software development methodologies; from Extreme programming to Agile.Â

Efforts like this from Vodafone acknowledges the ways that technology companies can benefit from open source and web 2.0 ethics.