Haters of Open Source... use Open Source.

As everyone knows, the Alexis *de Tocqueville Institute hates Open
Source. They've gone to great lengths in their pathetic attempts to
discredit it, including publishing whitepapers trying to spread FUD
(eg., "Opening the Open Source Debate", and a book desperately trying to
show that Linus pirated Linux. [The Andrew Tannenbaum rants about that
book are almost as legendary as the Torvalds/Tannenbaum flamewars; see
www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/brown/ .]
 
It looks as if, however, AdTI has seen the light; the title tags at
www.adti.net now say, "*This site best viewed using Mozilla
Firefox(r)". Apparently, the closed-source software which the so firmly
believe in is a bit more security-hole ridden than the Open Source --
"Hybrid Source" in AdTI doublespeak -- alternative.
 
Nevertheless, one item of interest remains: I find it amusing and ironic
that an "Institute" that clearly feels pride in its elitism is capable
of mis-quoting one of the most famous speeches of one of our most famous
presidents -- right in their site's banner. The correct quote, Mr.
Brown, is "... not because they are easy, but because they are hard."
But hard work, and journalistic integrity, seem to evade AdTI.
 
Ken D'Ambrosio
kena@well.com