When America was bold and new, a Frenchman called Alexis de Tocqueville began an epic adventure in the new world and wrote a book about this emerging society. Alexis was an 18th centaury version of Alistair Cook.

These days a right-wing research organisation has been named after him: The Alexis de Tocqueville Institute appear to be a bunch of shysters who will publish anything in the guise of ‘research’. Witness their recent attempts to re-write the history of UNIX, now profoundly debunked.

This is the new front-line for IT marketing FUD, big companies like Microsoft and SCO, encourage small research companies to publish blatent mis-information. The big company gets plausable deinability (they can claim it was nothing to do with them), the small company gets cash for generating fear.

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