Alexis de Tocqueville Institution

Arlington, VA 22209

May 20, 2018

AdTI at SourceWatch.org

http://www.sourcewatch.org/wiki.phtml?title=Alexis_de_Tocqueville_Institution

May 20, 2014

AdTI at Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville_Institution

Tim Lambert
June 22, 2004

When Think Tanks Attack

http://timlambert.org/2004/06#tanks

Think tanks vs Open Source

The Alexis de Tocqueville Institute’s attack on Linux is just the latest in a series of attacks on Open Source by think tanks.

LinuxCult.com
June 14, 2004

Anti-Linux Hatchet Job (by AdTI)

http://linuxcult.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6684

In sum, the [Ken, of AdTI] Brown book looks like a clear hatchet job

Tim Lambert
May 27, 2004

The Astroturf de Tocqueville Institute

http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/cgi-bin/blog/2004/05#adti

Last year I wrote about how Tech Central Station was an astroturf operation, published by a public relations company to provide supposedly independant support for the PR companies clients. The Alexis de Tocqueville Institute is another astroturf operation.

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Eweek.com
May 17, 2004

Think Tank Claims Torvalds Didn't Write Linux

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1594884,00.asp

Linux wasn't written by Linus Torvalds, according to the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, a Washington, D.C.-based foundation

Instead, Kenneth Brown, president of AdTI, claims that Linux is based on intellectual property "often taken or adapted without permission from material owned by other companies and individuals."

The announcement offers no proof of its assertions but says proof will be provided in later announcements—and eventually in a self-published book—that are based on "extensive interviews with more than two dozen leading technologists including Richard Stallman, Dennis Ritchie and Andrew Tanenbaum."

Microsoft in the past has supplied funding for the institution, which has published anti-open-source papers. In an eWEEK.com interview, senior fellow Gregory Fossedal refused to say who, if anyone, is sponsoring the institution's Linux project. "We don't discuss our funding," he said.

... Douglas A. Levin, president and CEO of Black Duck Software Inc., a company that makes software for source code and open-source license auditing, said, "This seems to be an effort of FUD [fear, uncertainty and doubt] attacking Linux because it is threatening the Windows franchise and other operating systems like Solaris."

Robin "Roblimo" Miller
NewsForge.com
October 24, 2002

Anti-Open Source lobbyists need love, too

http://www.newsforge.com/business/02/10/25/056218.shtml?tid=19

I felt bad for Ken Brown of the Alexis De Toqueville Institution last week. There he was, on a panel in a room full of Open Source advocates and people interested in learning more about Open Source. Even though Mr. Brown spoke as eloquently as a storefont gospel preacher he didn't seem to grasp that his message was missing its mark. But it took an unplanned lunch encounter to show me why Mr. Brown and his crowd have so much trouble grasping the concepts behind the GPL, and behind Open Source in general...

Wired.com
June 4, 2002

Did MS Pay for Open-Source Scare?

http://www.wired.com/news/linux/0,1411,52973,00.html

Authors of a new report on the perils of open source software are being very closed-mouth about their funding sources.

"Opening the Open Source Debate," a white paper slated to be released Friday by the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, indicates that open-source software is inherently less secure than proprietary software. The report warns governments against relying on open-source software for national security.

...A Microsoft spokesman confirmed that Microsoft provides funding to the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution...