-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 11 October 2002 10:09 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] did speak unto the huddled masses, saying:
> Fear > Uncertainty > Doubt > > IBM was the king of it early on, but MS has been the champion for > > >What's it stand for? one of the classic IBM FUDs was "nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM." from the jargon files: 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 implicit coercion was traditionally accomplished 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. After 1990 the term FUD was associated increasingly frequently with Microsoft, and has become generalized to refer to any kind of disinformation used as a competitive weapon. - -- A fool and his money are soon using Windows. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 @ http://counter.li.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9plVDBwq+ZwvIN/oRAvkvAJ0efx/9ZxWncS+fIA21XRMdK8Ck2QCfZRJc w+z/hNV9FSrYoRkt7o+pxfQ= =FVdS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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