The Age: How Independent is Independent? | Linux Today

The Age: How Independent is Independent?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 6, 2004

“Following an increasingly common trend in what has been
cynically dubbed pay per view, the Institute for Policy Innovation
(IPI) has joined a long string of self-titled independent think
tanks such as the Alexis de Tocqueville Institute in releasing a
study strongly critical of Open Source (outside of strictly limited
fields within research and academia).

“The IPI website claims that IPI’s focus is on approaches to
governing that harness the strengths of individual liberty, limited
government, and free markets: but their report sides with business
practices guaranteeing individual liberty only to a very few, and
what amounts to economic slavery for the very many…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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