'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 ...

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Re:Off-topic: missile defense

[ImaLamer]

That is funny, the pope claims he and the church single handedly took the whole thing down.

Seems everyone takes all the credit. Bush Sr., Reagan, the Pope...

hrm.. unholly trinity?

Realtime security from open source

[Eric Savage]

While I still believe that OSS shows a distinct lack of innovation (go ahead, mod me down you zealot), there are enough benevolent citizens in the open source community that if a truly life-threatening risk was identified it would be fixed within hours.