Slightly off topic: FUD ??
I've just been reading an interesting article by Eric S. Raymond (_The
Cathedral and the Bazaar_,
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar). In it he is
commenting on what he believes to be an authentic internal M$ document
talking about the challenge presented by the open source movement.
Anyway, my question for the list is, "does anyone know what FUD is". I have
recently seen this acronym floating around in relation to how big companies
like micromush are going to combat against the growing threat posed by open
source. These references are always saying stuff like normal FUD tactics
won't work.
I feel like I'm missing just a little bit of the flavour of these articles,
so if anyone can enlighten me I'd be really FUDing happy :).
BTW, the article I said I was reading is at
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/halloween.html
TIA,
Gerald
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