Some readers might be interested in Cato’s 2007 annual report, which is now available online. Most of the report summarizes the excellent public policy work my colleagues did during 2007. Cato’s financials and a list of corporate and foundation donors can be found on pp. 46-47. The corporate sponsors with significant interests in technology policy are: Comcast, the Consumer Electronics Association, Freedom Communications, Microsoft, and Time Warner. Cato’s 18 corporate sponsors together contributed just 2 percent of the budget in 2007.
Tim Lee / Timothy B. Lee (Contributor, 2004-2009) is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. He is currently a PhD student and a member of the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University. He contributes regularly to a variety of online publications, including Ars Technica, Techdirt, Cato @ Liberty, and The Angry Blog. He has been a Mac bigot since 1984, a Unix, vi, and Perl bigot since 1998, and a sworn enemy of HTML-formatted email for as long as certain companies have thought that was a good idea. You can reach him by email at leex1008@umn.edu.