Kenneth Brown (author)

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Kenneth P. Brown, Jr. is an American author. He is most famous for authoring reports critical of Linux and open source software, notably the book Samizdat. While his reports have been strongly criticised in technical circles, his intended audience is legislators, newspaper editors and talk show hosts.

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Brown is president of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution (AdTI), a think tank based in Arlington, Virginia. He oversees the Institution's policy studies and foundation relationships. He is also Vice-President of the Emerging Markets Group, an overseas market investment and advisory firm.

Kenneth Brown also serves on the Board of Directors of the Democratic Century Fund, and oversees investment hedge fund.

Brown has a B.A. in English Literature from George Mason University.

[edit] Articles

• “The Market Place Should Rule on Technology”, The Journal of Commerce, February 23, 2000. (Also at http://www.adti.net/html_files/technology/marketplace_rule.html)
• “Breaking Windows Over Antitrust Dogma”, The Washington Times, February 23, 2000. (Also at http://www.adti.net/html_files/technology/windows_dogma.html)
• “Regulating Internet access: An Idea Whose Time Never Came”, March 6, 2000.
• “One Year Makes the Difference in Access Debate”, Multichannel News, May 1, 2000. (Also at http://www.adti.net/multichannews_kbrown050100.html)
• “Fine Microsoft and use funds to catalize new competition", Conway Springs Star, June 22, 2000.
• “The Tech Industry: The New Target of Consumer Activism”, iMP Magazine, October 23, 2000. (Also at http://www.cisp.org/imp/october_2000/10_00brown-insight.htm)
• “Virginia is cleaner, no thanks to environmental scare-mongers”, The Washington Times, October 25, 2000.
• “Data Access and Privacy Issues on Internet Clash”, Federal Times, November 6, 2000.
• “The Internet Privacy Debate, Privacy Law Advisor, November 29, 2000. (Also at http://www.adti.net/html_files/technology/privacylawadvisor_kbrown112900.html)
• “The Internet Privacy Debate”, International Journal of Communications and Law Policy, March 8, 2001.
• “Understanding the CLERC crisis”, May 8, 2001
• “Rum War Test U.S. Foreign Policy”, The Miami Herald, June 18, 2001.
• “A Rum Deal”, newspress.com, July 8, 2001.
• “Keep Trade on Track”, The Washington Times, August 12, 2001
• “Opening the Open Source Debate", June 2002.
• “Broadband Growth in Korea”, June 2003.
• “Convergence and the Future of Broadcast Content”, October 15,2003.
• “Regulating the Cost of Nickelodeon”, November 5, 2003.
• “VOIP - Economics in 2004”, January 3, 2004.
• “VOIP - Embracing Invention”, January 5, 2004.
• “Outsourcing and The Devaluation of Intellectual Property”, Darwinmag.com, (April 26, 2004) (Original published on AdTI March 10, 2004 at http://www.adti.net/outop.htm)
• “Patents and the Penguin”, April 28, 2004
• “Samizdat: And Other Issues Regarding the 'Source' of Open Source Code”, May 20, 2004.

[edit] External links

• Kenneth Brown, B.A. (biography, International Journal of Communications Law and Policy)
• Andrew Tanenbaum, "Ken Brown's Motivation, Release 1.2", Linuxtoday, May 22, 2004.
• Andrew Tanenbaum, "Some Notes on the 'Who Wrote Linux' Kerfuffle, Release 1.1", Linuxtoday, May 20, 2004.
• Andrew Tanenbaum, "Some Notes on the 'Who wrote Linux' Kerfuffle, Release 1.5", Original article by Andrew Tanenbaum, May 20, 2004.
• Kenneth Brown at SourceWatch

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