Alexis de Tocqueville Institute er íhaldshugveita sem svertir nafn merka franska heimspekingsins og sagnfræðingsins sem hún heitir eftir. Úr Wikipedíugreininni um hana.
The [institute] published a controversial book, Samizdat, which argued against aspects of open source software. While the book called for increased investment in open source development, it criticized what it called "hybrid" source models, in which true open source code is mixed with proprietary code, with the result that intellectual property rights (and thus value) are nullified.
To illustrate potential problems with this approach, the book cited the case of Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux. It claimed Torvalds had plagiarized Linux source code from both Unix and MINIX, the latter a Unix-derived operating system written by Professor Andrew Tanenbaum. It cited a number of arguments for the claim, including an email from Tanenbaum saying MINIX "was the base" Torvalds used to create Linux. Tanenbaum later published a refutation of the book's interpretation, saying he believed Torvalds did write [sic] Linux single-handedly.
Microsoft had been one of the Institution's backers for five years, although a Microsoft spokesman said they had not funded any specific research. Microsoft funds several think tanks, including the American Enterprise Institute, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Heritage Foundation and the Cato Institute.
Á vefsíðu American Enterprise Institute stendur að "[AEI]'s governance is ... overseen by leading business and financial executives." 'Nuff said.
CSIS hefur lítið gert undanfarin ár annað en að skrifa bullskýrslur sem blása upp meintu ógnina í svokallaða "stríðinu gegn hryðjuverkum."
Heritage Foundation er fræg bandarísk íhalds-þjóðernisstefnu-hugveita.
Svo er Cato Institute ein frægasta frjálshyggjuhugveita í heimi.
Af hverju er Microsoft að fjármagna hugveitur með sterkri hægrislagsíðu, stofnanir sem hafa nákvæmlega ekkert að gera með kjarnastarfsemi fyrirtækisins?
Ó, jæja, enn ein ástæða til þess að sniðganga vörur þessa fyrirtækis. Virðist sem pólitíkin þeirra sé engu skárri en hugbúnaðurinn.