Intel acquires private 5G network provider Ananki

Intel has acquired private 5G network provider Ananki, several months after the startup spun out of the non-profit Open Networking Foundation to commercialize open-source network technologies. The acquisition was confirmed Monday on LinkedIn by Guru Parulkar, who was co-founder and CEO of Ananki and executive director of the …

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I thought it said "Anakin"

Aside from that moment of dyslexical function, why does the purchase of an outfit "spun out of the non-profit Open Networking Foundation to commercialize open-source network technologies" by a renowned proprietary shark worry me? I mean, the 5G ecology is supposed to be open-source. Eating it would cripple said nascent ecology, and nobody sane wants that.