DUF vs FUD
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| In mind, I am a strong supporter of Free Software, no doubt. But concerning
| the fight against FUD, I prefer the way of Taiji - conquering the unyielding
| with the yielding. Thus I invent the DUF (previously FUD when I commented on
| the article).
|
| * D - Decision (This talks about choice. You are the decision-maker for a
| choice)
| * U - Unclosure (This term is coined to emphasize the concept of ``Open
| Source''. If one does want to know what's inside, I'd like to show him
| the OSD by OSI.)
| * F - Freedom (This does specify what's the meaning of `Free' in ``Free
| Software'', and If one does want to know what `Freedoms' he can win,
| I'd like to show him the FSD by FSF, in particular, the four essential
| freedoms.)
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http://plmday.blogspot.com/2008/03/duf-vs-fud.html
Quote for the day:
"Don’t encourage new, cross-platform Java classes, especially don’t help get
great Win 32 implementations written/deployed. [...] Do encourage
fragmentation of the Java classlib space."
--Ben Slivka, Microsoft
Related:
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| "After a long and arduous journey that included a suspended validation last
| year .. OpenSSL has regained its FIPS 140-2 validation"
|
| "We called it the FUD campaign," he says. "There were all kinds of
| complaints sent to the CMVP including one about 'Commie code.' .. Silly or
| no, each complaint that's filed really slows down the process."
|
| "the ones they did see often contained redacted, or blacked-out, data about
| who had filed the complaint .. in some cases, proprietary software vendors
| were lodging the complaints.
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http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/02/08/1935232
The commie smear against open source
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| Because proprietary companies will always spend more of their
| money on marketing than open source outfits, it pops up regularly
| in the best of places, such as at Time Magazine recently. Or
| Microsoft sends CEO Steve Ballmer to London, so he can rant
| about how his lawyers are going to make all Linux users pay
| Microsoft for their stuff.
|
| It's nonsense.
|
| This is not "the gift economy," as Justin Fox calls it in Time.
| This is people taking advantage of the fact that the Internet
| has no distribution costs, which means marketing costs can
| also sink to zero. No ads in Time doesn't make you a communist.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=946
Top 10 Linux FUD Patterns, Part 3
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| When you hear the phrase “official support,” what comes to mind? Informative
| user manuals? A well-staffed call center? But what makes it “official”? This
| is the second item on my Top 10 List of Linux FUD patterns: the lack
| of “official” Linux support. The goal of FUD based on this notion is a
| mixture of fear and uncertainty, to make you believe that using Linux means
| having no place to turn when a problem occurs.
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http://linuxfud.wordpress.com/2008/01/25/top-10-linux-fud-patterns-part-3/
Myths Stymie Linux Growth
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| Regardless of the advantages offered by Linux, no one seems to be adopting it
| wholeheartedly in the business world. What makes that even more fascinating
| is that the backlash against Windows Vista is not reason enough to fuel the
| move to Linux.
|
| The problem here is that the powers that be have created enough FUD (fear,
| uncertainty and doubt) about Linux that most decision makers feel it is safer
| to stick with Windows (including XP). That FUD is fueled by many myths and
| misconceptions about what Linux can and cannot do.
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http://www.channelinsider.com/article/Myths+Stymie+Linux+Growth/220508_1.aspx
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