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'Think Tank' Issues Microsoft-Funded Troll

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the institute-and-prostitute-share-a-lot-of-letters dept.

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 ...

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  1. the web site by negativethirsty · · Score: 0, Redundant



    thats really all you had to say ya know.

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    thirsty*i^2

    "Ya I finished that last week, it just doesn't work"
  2. More FUD by Tiado · · Score: 0, Redundant
    This should give me my recommended daily intake of M$-generated FUD.

    Funny how Microsoft, with questionable business ethics and extremely unstable and expensive closed-source software with security holes big enough to drive a truck through, are giving these 'think tanks' money to say that Open Source Software is not only insecure, but 'Supports Terrorism(TM)'.

    It seems to me that the words "Terrorism", and "Terrorist" have become such buzzwords that people will now be wracked with fear the millisecond someone makes the (however questionable) connection between a certain person/organization, object/product/location/etc. and 'Terrorism(TM)'.

    The next thing you know pig lobbyists like M$ will be greasing up the lawmakers of the world to implement a worldwide ban on Open Source Software, and delclaring the act of possessing/creating/distributing/using OSS an 'Act Of Terrorism(TM)', which will result in much heavy-handed penalties: such as execution or lifetime imprisonment, because your an 'Enemy of the Free World'.

    Just my $0.02