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"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty," or so Wendell Phillips reminds us. Similarly, the cost of purchasing a lie may be measured in dollars, but vigilance is part of the price to protect truth. Today we find that those who wish to attack software freedom now wish to do so by attacking truth. "The big lie" is a classic form of propoganda. Pioneered by Goebbels, the idea is simple enough: by telling a lie, no matter how outrageous, and repeating it loudly and persistently, people will begin to believe it is the truth.

Marist College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., has joined the Open Source Development Labs, becoming the first member of an affiliate program that lets colleges and universities join the multicompany consortium, OSDL said Tuesday. The consortium, which employs Linux founder Linus Torvalds, is attempting to become the "center of gravity," a focal point for development of the open-source operating system.

That's the title of a presentation given by Forrester Research analysts John Rymer and Noel Yuhanna at GigaWorld 2004. This session was attended by fewer than 30 of the approximately 800 GigaWorld attendees, but raised some interesting points, especially about how to compare competing commercial and open source offerings.