Thomas A. Giovanetti

From SourceWatch

Thomas A. Giovanetti (better known as Tom Giovanetti) was the Director of Marketing for a small manufacturing company in Dallas and a freelance writer in Dallas. In 1993 Tom Giovanetti joined the Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI) when David W. Hobbs was president of IPI (1989-1995). Later Tom Giovanetti became IPI's president.

As a freelance writer he wrote in 1992 "Thoughts on Creativity While Watching The Twilight Zone" (published in The Freeman, a publication of the Foundation for Economic Education):

"The evil in a command economy is that it attacks the image of God in man, in part by denying man an outlet for his creativity. A command economy is the logical outgrowth of a philosophy that denies the divine and attacks the image of God within man. It was entirely consistent for Communism, which forbade (note past tense!) free religious and artistic expression, also to mandate a strictly planned economy." [1]

In June 2004 the Australian blogger Tim Lambert mentioned IPI as one of several think tanks writing reports critical to open source software while they seem to be funded by Microsoft. [2]

The reply of Tom Giovanetti was

First, you accuse IPI of taking money from Microsoft, but you have no facts or proof. True, you'd LIKE us to do your homework for you, but in absence of proof, a decent journalist never makes an accusation. ... Second, regarding whether we take money from Microsoft, IPI has an absolute policy of protecting our donors' privacy. [3]

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