[Am-info] Conservatism hijacked

[Erick Andrews]

On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 14:59:57 -0400, John J. Urbaniak wrote:

>Well, that so-called "Conservative" Think Tank's article on the supposed
>insecurities with open source code, has now been thoroughly debunked.
>What's more, as we suspected, the institute has been heavily funded by
>Microsoft.
>
>See "MS-funded think tank propagates
>                open-source lies"
>
>     http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25656.html
>
>This is not the first time a "Conservative" institute has released
>meaningless drivel in the support of Microsoft.  The Ayn Rand Institute
>and the Cato Group have made assholes of themselves over Microsoft as
>well.
>
>I consider myself politically Conservative, but these nutcases are
>embarrassments to me.  They aren't Conservatives.
>
>John

Exactly.  They are *radicals*.

-- 
Erick Andrews