[luau] NEWS: MS-funded think tank propagates open-source lies

[Warren Togami]

Several follow-up articles in rebuttal to this Microsoft funded AdTI study.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/06/11/1022982836568.html
http://www.roaringpenguin.com/adti2.php3
http://www.idg.net/ic_874686_1794_9-10000.html
http://osopinion.com/perl/story/18179.html

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From: "Warren Togami" <warren at togami.com>
To: "LUAU" <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 7:50 PM
Subject: [luau] NEWS: MS-funded think tank propagates open-source lies


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