[FYI] Thomas C Greene about Alexis de Tocqueville Institution on OSS

["Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25656.html

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MS-funded think tank propagates open-source lies  

By Thomas C Greene in Washington  

Posted: 10/06/2002 at 17:43 GMT  

A Washington think tank called the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution 
has released its anticipated study of the dangers of open-source 
software. Much to our disappointment, the organization's press 
release, which last week promised that the study would explain in 
gory detail how open-source software will foster international 
terrorism, turns out to have been a tissue of headline-pimping lies.  

Indeed, the paper never mentions terrorism at all. Instead, it 
overflows with the usual half-truth drivel about the economic dangers 
of the GPL which one can find re-hashed daily on the Microsoft 'Press 
Pass' PR site and the editorial pages of ZD-Net News.  

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