On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, Alan Cox wrote: Dear Alan,
> What you have to remember is this. > > SuSE are currently too small to be worth sueing in the US > on a licensing issue. Ditto most (all ?) other current > distributors > > I'm not trying to belittle people like SuSE quite the opposite - Im > confident SuSE will end up big enough to be worth sueing in the USA on > such matters. What happens then ? Alan: This is a perfect example of FUD! >From ESR`s hackers dictionary: ":FUD: /fuhd/ n. Defined by Gene Amdahl after he left IBM to found his own company: "FUD is the fear, uncertainty, and doubt that IBM sales people instill in the minds of potential customers who might be considering [Amdahl] products." The idea, of course, was to persuade them to go with safe IBM gear rather than with competitors' equipment. This was traditionally done by promising that Good Things would happen to people who stuck with IBM, but Dark Shadows loomed over the future of competitors' equipment or software. See {IBM}. :FUD wars: /fuhd worz/ n. [from {FUD}] Political posturing engaged in by hardware and software vendors ostensibly committed to standardization but actually willing to fragment the market to protect their own shares. The UNIX International vs. OSF conflict is but one outstanding example." Facts: Unix does have most of its acceptance in Europe in contrast to the US. SuSE is the most popular Linux distributor in Europe. SuSE has the biggest rate of growth of all Linux distributors in the US. -- martin // Martin Konold, Herrenbergerstr. 14, 72070 Tuebingen, Germany // // Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] // Anybody who's comfortable using KDE should use it. Anyone who wants to tell other people what they should be using can go to work for Microsoft. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: "BCPL gave birth to B, and the child of B was of course C, since the ancestor of X is W, so the sucessor to X must be K."