[ale] [Fwd: Microsoft Admits Contribution]

[Robert L. Harris]

Can we sue em for false advertising?  They're not a think tank, they're
an advertising agency.

Thus spake Geoffrey (esoteric at 3times25.net):

> Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 15:12:21 -0400
> From: Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net>
> To: ALE <ale at ale.org>
> Subject: [ale] [Fwd:  Microsoft Admits Contribution]
> 
> Microsoft Admits Contribution to Think Tank That
>                  Published Anti Open-Source Paper
> 
> Microsoft admits that it provides funding to the Alexis de Tocqueville
> Institution, the think tank that recently released a white paper that
> maintains open source software is not secure and that government
> should instead use proprietary software.  The Institution will not
> comment on specific funding for the report.
> 
> http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,52973,00.html
> 
> [Editor's (Paller) Note: Last year, the same think tank published a
> paper extolling the benefits of Microsoft's certification programs.]
> 
> 
> -- 
> Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net
> 
> I didn't have to buy my radio from a specific company to listen
> to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?
> 
> 
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