The Open Networking Foundation has often distinguished itself from other open telecoms initiatives by boasting of its significant internal engineering team. That has enabled it to stay highly independent of individual vendors’ agendas because it is less reliant that many groups, such as the O-RAN Alliance, on time and engineering effort contributed by its members. However, it is now changing its position, releasing all its internally developed platforms into full open source and transferring its development team en masse to Intel. The ONF will now follow a member-driven model, closer to other industry technology groups, and will just retain a core team of 11 engineers, while more than 40 have transferred to Intel. This highlights the chip giant’s increasing interest…