This talk will take us through the smorgasbord of “open" networking projects, many leveraging Linux and/or open-source in some shape or fashion, and help the audience how to make sense of it all. However, the true pièce de résistance is the deeper examination of where the “open” networking world is in fact not sufficiently open enough, why it should matter to the entire open-source community and what the community needs to be doing about it.