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Re: ADTI: Ready for Round Three with Open Sourcers
Posted by: Lisa Stapleton 2004-12-01 05:32:43

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The same group that said that free and open-source software was a bigger security risk than commercial software and also claimed that Linus Torvalds ripped off the Linux kernel plans to release a new report in a few weeks. Ken Brown, director of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution's technology program authored the study, tentatively titled "Intellectual Property Left."

Re: ADTI: Ready for Round Three with Open Sourcers
Posted by: tsudhonimh 2005-01-19 11:32:28 In reply to: Lisa Stapleton

"about six months after the organization released a manuscript claiming that Linus Torvalds wrongfully appropriated key parts of MINIX in the first version of Linux, and that this alleged legacy has forever tainted open-source software, creating a climate of piracy."
And they are releasing their new report about 5 months and 29.5 days after their claims were thoroughly discredited by several persons, including the author of Minix.

Re: ADTI: Ready for Round Three with Open Sourcers
Posted by: Kagehi 2004-12-01 10:22:59 In reply to: Lisa Stapleton

Yes.. Lets warn all those investors that are literally throwing money at companies who are investing in open source products.. Oh wait, you mean those are not the ones they are worried about? lol You know, in the online world we call people and groups that act as proxies for other companies and lie about things "trolls". Someone needs to take these real world trolls down a few notches.

Re: ADTI: Ready for Round Three with Open Sourcers
Posted by: fullewr 2004-12-01 07:37:30 In reply to: Lisa Stapleton

These discredited corporate sock-puppets seem to have a near perfect record of getting nothing right. Why are you wasting time covering them? A four year old kid with a towl wrapped around his head peering into a snow globe and pretending to be a fortune teller would be a better source of information than these clowns.