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Thomas C Greene about Alexis de Tocqueville Institution on OSS

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


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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