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'Think Tank' Issues Microsoft-Funded Troll
dlur (among many others) writes: "According to this ZDNet article, a Washington think tank known as the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution is soon to release a study stating that Open Source Software allows terrorists an easy time hacking into our systems. It's little suprise that this group takes money from Microsoft."
The Register's story
is good too.
All the whoring reports in the world won't make open source any less secure. This same institute backed destabilizing, unworkable '80s missile defense
and thinks Alexis de Tocqueville would have wanted the
V-22 Osprey deathplane.
Also, see what their coin-operated policy dispenser spat out for
internet privacy
(eat what you're fed) and
antitrust
(advantage of Microsoft monopoly: "manufacturers of computer hardware need to provide only one
driver").
We weren't going to run this, but there were a lot of submissions, so ...
I like how /. offers up tidbits like missle defense is "unstabilizing and unworkable" without offering a modicum of reasoning, which to me is just further evidence that they don't know what they're talking about.
Seems that they are just that desperate to discredit Microsoft that they will resort to silly attacks about things they know nothing about.
After looking around the ADTI web site, it's obvious that the organization is just a thinly veiled Republican back-scratcher. I doubt anyone really cares what ADTI thinks.