Alexis de Tocqueville Serves Up a Red Herring

Alexis de Tocqueville Serves Up a Red Herring
Richard Forno, 2002-06-19

The use of "terrorism" and "national security" are shameful attempts to use fear, uncertainty, and doubt to push Microsoft's monopolistic agenda.

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Alexis de Tocqueville Serves Up a Red Herring 2002-06-20
blacklight

Thanks to Richard Forno for filling in the blanks: with the kind Open Source community that we have, that hack writer article from the Alexis de Tocqueville Institute was analytically ripped to pieces as soon as it was published. The author is clearly some intellectual prostitute with little to no t...

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Alexis de Tocqueville Serves Up a Red Herring 2002-06-20
Kenneth Brown (1 replies)

Richard,

Your points are well taken. However, you misinformed about a few things:

1) Our paper has almost a three-page section on the government and GPL, which discussed security issues, such as classified source code and the risk of breaches in peer review groups. You didn't respond to any...

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Alexis de Tocqueville Serves Up a Red Herring 2002-06-20
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KEN SAYS:
1) Our paper has almost a three-page section on the government and GPL, which discussed security issues, such as classified source code and the risk of breaches in peer review groups. You didn't respond to any of them. Not that you are obliged to, but if you are responding to the paper ...

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Alexis de Tocqueville Serves Up a Red Herring 2002-06-21
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I'd like to add that our black hat adversaries are definitely sold on Open Source: (1) Their OS of choice is Linux, not anything manufactured by Microsoft, as they themselves don't like to be the target of successful penetration attacks; (2) They describe their exploits in painstaking details, and a...

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Alexis de Tocqueville Serves Up a Red Herring 2002-07-02
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An argument has been made that Open Source is bad for the US economy. My take:

(1) This argument has probably not reached the ears of IBM, which just happens to be the largest computer company in the world: IBM has been positioning Linux for several years now as the single operating system that u...

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