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, for the most part his intended audience is the technically un-savvy: legislators, newspaper editors and talk show hosts.
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Brown is the former 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.
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- “One Year Makes the Difference in Access Debate”, Multichannel News, May 1, 2000.
- “The Internet Privacy Debate”, International Journal of Communications and Law Policy, March 8, 2001.
- “Outsourcing and The Devaluation of Intellectual Property”, Darwinmag.com, (April 26, 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.}}
- This article uses content from the SourceWatch article on Kenneth Brown (author) under the terms of the GFDL.
