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This is just a time out to say Happy Thanksgiving to U.S. readers.

The U.S. version of this worldwide tradition is based on events that occured almost 400 years ago here on Cape Cod. Some interesting sidelights to the story are highlighted over at my personal web site, IT Investment Research.

To many, the most interesting sidelight is that the story does not begin with Plymouth Rock but at many points further "down" the Cape.

To others sadly, the story is not all about the Europeans that wandered all around Cape Cod that fall like a bunch of tourists today. Just as there are two sides to the open source software (OSS) story--which is why I am agnostic about OSS--there is another side to the Pilgrim's story. It is the saga of the Wampanoag that met the Pilgrims.

That story might have become less sad this year with the tribe's "recognition" by the U.S. federal government.

And the Wampanoag's story has an IT connection as well. One of the leaders of the movement by the Wampanoag to gain U.S federal government recognition was Russ Peters, a marketing manager at Honeywell Information Systems (HIS) in the 1970s. HIS is a predecessor of the French information technology systems supplier, Bull SA. There is more on Russ at my web site as well.

Don't eat too much turkey.

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