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'''Gregory A. Fossedal''' was as a student at Dartmouth College also an editor of the official campus newspaper, ''The Daily Dartmouth''. In 1980 he declined to print an editorial unfavorable to the conservative Dr. John Steel and the editorial page editor refused Fossedal's pro-Steel piece. As a result Gregory Fossedal, Gordon Haff, Benjamin Hart, and Keeney Jones founded the ''Dartmouth Review''. [http://www.dartreview.com/archives/2003/09/30/miscreants_on_main_street_twentythree_years_at_the_dartmouth_review.php]. Fossedal graduated from Dartmouth College in 1981 Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa. From 1986 to 1991, Fossedal was a research fellow at the [[Hoover Institution]] at Stanford University. From 1983 to 1986, he was an editorial writer for The Wall Street Journal. He is the chairman of the [[Alexis de Tocqueville Institution]] (AdTI), the executive committee chairman of the [[Ernest Martin Hopkins InstitutionInstitute]], president of [[Emerging Markets Group]], and a member of the board of directors of the [[Democracy Foundation]]. His mother (Dr. [[Ruth Smith]]) was at least from 1996 involved in AdTI (in particular with AdTI's [[Teacher Choice]] which was founded by Mr. Fossedal).

== [[AdTI-Funding]] == Gregory Fossedal -- Paid $42,000, plus $153,000 (1998); $102,000 (1999); $60,000, plus $60,000 (2000); Chairman/Director (1998-2000) paid consultant (1998-2000) == Microsoft Funding Scare Tactics? == ''Open-source advocates wondered if the white paper is actually a veiled [[Microsoft]] response to recent reports of rising government and military interest in open-source systems.''' ''A [[Microsoft]] spokesman confirmed that [[Microsoft]] provides funding to the [[Alexis de Tocqueville Institution]].'' ''"We support a diverse array of public policy organizations with which we share a common interest or public policy agenda such as the de Tocqueville Institution," the spokesman '''wrote in an e-mail'''."'' - WIRED, Jun. 05, 2002 [http://www.wired.com/news/linux/0,1411,52973,00.html] ''The institution, a Washington think tank that is partly funded by [[Microsoft]] Corp., released the paper written by its president, [[Kenneth Brown]], and titled "Opening the Open Source Debate."'' ''The paper repeats many of [[Microsoft]]'s arguments around open source and the [[GPL]], stating that while open source is helpful to the global software industry as a development model, the [[GPL]] holds many risks and threatens the cooperation between different parties collaborating to create new technologies.'' - eWeek, June 11, 2002 [http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,370,00.asp] ''Open Source and Free Software activist [[Bruce Perens]] recently sent us a Call for Donations to try to counterbalance the "findings" of "think tanks" like AdTI. I've been hanging around the Washington, D.C., area for a good number of years now. I've watched the professional lobbyists in action, and they get the big bucks because they're good at what they do. But there are a lot more of us than there are of them. We have seen that Open Source activists can make a difference if enough of us make the right calls (and send the right emails and faxes) to the right people.'' ''Bruce is 100 percent correct when he says, "Free Software is no longer 'under the radar.' Our electronic freedoms -- even our right to program -- are under a very well-funded and vicious attack. We must actively defend ourselves now, or the good that we've created will be erased."'' ''It takes money, time, and effort to advance the causes we hold dear. Often the effort seems futile. It is easy to get overwhelmed by the endless wear-you-down tactics and resources the people on the other side enjoy. But the alternative is to simply walk away and let them have their way, and that simply won't do.'' - NewsForge, [http://www.newsforge.com/business/02/10/25/056218.shtml?tid=19] == UPI == Gregory Fossedal sometimes writes "THe [sic] Bottom Line" articles for [[United Press International]] (UPI) which is indirectly owned by [[Sun Myung Moon]]'s [[Unification Church]]. These articles are also published in ''[[Washington Times|The Washington Times]]'' (also owned by the Unification Church) and other papers. The footer of these articles used to start with "''Gregory Fossedal is chief investment officer of the [[Democratic Century Fund]], managed by the [[Emerging Markets Group]].''" Recently that changed into "''Fossedal manages international investement [sic] research for Emerging Markets Group in Washington, DC.''" Several of these articles are pro-[[Microsoft]] and against open source software. AdTI, of which Gregory Fossedal is the chairman, is funded by Microsoft and AdTI produced several reports which were pro-Microsoft and against open source software. (''see also'' [[AdTI-Funding]]) The future of The SCO Group ([[TSCOG]]), which claims copyright ownership of Unix, is in danger by open software products like [[Linux]]. In 2004 they were involved in five lawsuits related to Linux (they sued in 2003 and early 2004 four companies and they were sued by Novell) and they threatened Linux end users if they didn't pay licences. Microsoft directly and indirectly pumped money into The SCO Group because Linux is also a threat to their profit and monopoly so spreading [[FUD]] about Linux is also in Microsoft's interest. (''see also'' [[SCO Group campaign against the free Linux OS]]) In articles published on October 3, 2003 [http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20031003-052555-4332r] and July 24, 2004 [http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20040724-021913-7198r.htm] Gregory Fossedal was suggesting that buying stocks of The SCO group was a good investment. The closing price of that stock before that first article was $16.90 [http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=SCOX&a=09&b=15&c=2003&d=10&e=30&f=2003&g=d] and the closing price before the last article was $4.25 [http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=SCOX&a=06&b=15&c=2004&d=06&e=27&f=2004&g=d] so that is a 75 percent loss in less than 10 months. == Books == *[[Daniel O. Graham]], Gregory A. Fossedal, "A Defense That Defends; Blocking Nuclear Attack," ''Devin-Adair'', February 1, 1984, ISBN 0815953178 *Daniel O. Graham, Gregory Fossedal, "Can Space Weapons Reduce the Risk of Nuclear War?," ''Greenhaven Press'', June 1985, ISBN 9996815277 *[[Dinesh D'Souza]], Gregory Fossedal, "My Dear Alex: Letters from the KGB," ''Regnery Publishing'', June 1, 1987, ISBN 0895265761 *Gregory A. Fossedal, "The Democratic Imperative: Exporting the American Revolution," ''Perseus Books Group'', April 1, 1989, ISBN 0465098010 *Gregory A. Fossedal, "Our Finest Hour: Will Clayton, the Marshall Plan, and the Triumph of Democracy" ''Hoover Institution Press'', March 1, 1993, ISBN 0817992014 *Gregory A. Fossedal, "Direct Democracy in Switzerland," ''Transaction Publishers'', March 1, 2002, ISBN 0765800780

== External Websites == *http://www.adti.net/gw-internet_regs.html AdTI index of articles on Open Source. *http://www.adti.net/opensource_debate062703.html AdTI additional links to OSS-related articles. *http://www.adti.net/opensource.pdf AdTI Opening the Open Source Debate White Paper by Kenneth Brown, 2002, AdTI president. *http://www.wired.com/news/linux/0,1411,52973,00.html Did MS Pay for Open-Source Scare? Jun. 05, 2002 *http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,370,00.asp eWeek article "White Paper Attacks GPL" *http://www.newsforge.com/business/02/10/25/056218.shtml?tid=19 "Anti-Open Source lobbyists need love, too" *[http://web.archive.org/web/19991115105141/www.adti.net/html_files/swiss/Foss_bio.htm Gregory A. Fossedal, Biography and background], Internet Archive copy of November 1999.