Microsoft's Masterpiece of FUD
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| I've been tracking the evolution of Microsoft FUD for nearly 10 years
| now, and wrote a short history of the subject a few months back. But
| even I was impressed when I came across Microsoft's latest effort in
| this department: it's truly a masterpiece of its kind.
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| It's a white paper from IDC, "sponsored" by Microsoft, on "The Economic
| Impact of Microsoft Windows Vista". But this is not some abstract
| ivory-tower analysis: on the contrary, it is highly targeted, and aimed
| at a very particular audience - the European Commission - that is proving
| to be annoyingly unaccommodating when it comes to letting Microsoft have
| its monopolistic way.
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| [...]
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| This, then, is Microsoft's FUD masterstroke: by focusing attentions
| quarely on the overall costs to society, and redefining them as
| "cascading economic benefits", it has finally managed to come up with a
| way of looking at things where free software is always inferior.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000097
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