“The open source winds are blowing,” declared Conny Franzen, CEO of Swedish broadband CPE veteran Inteno Group, via video call with Faultline this week. A developer of hardware-agnostic open source operating systems for residential gateways, through its software subsidiary iopsys, Inteno is seeing internet service providers opening up to the open source model. Getting there has been a slow burner, however, and Faultline has occasionally faced resistance by reminding vendors of the elephant in the room which is that higher-end ISPs prefer proprietary embedded software over open source. Open source advocates like Inteno want us to leave that opinion back in 2018 where it belongs. Indeed, Franzen quickly namedrops BT as a tier 1 customer of the iopsys open source…