The AdTI [Alexis de Tocqueville Institution]’s very weak and poorly-researched paper opens no debate. It simply confirms that Microsoft paid AdTI to come up with something — anything — to stem the growing adoption of open-source (especially GPL’d) software by business and government.
Some things don’t need [my] commentary: you just need to read it. Echoes of Dr. Edgar David Villanueva Nunez’s letter to MSFT.
The questions that come to mind:
Why is MSFT wasting their money on this kind of thing? By calling attention to open source vs their model, aren’t they inviting comparisons that might not otherwise occur?
And if they feel compelled to do this, why not spike something as half-baked as this? I can’t believe anyone read this and thought it was useful.