FUD detector
Description:
According to whatis.com: FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt) is the term for any strategy intended to make a company’s customers insecure about future product plans with the purpose of discouraging them from adopting competitors’ products. For example, “You can try using X instead of our product, but you may lose all your data.”
For us, the best proof that Open Source software is so good is the fact that the competition actually tries every method to discredit it. This category links to articles which might be interpreted as attempts to discredit a certain Open Source product. The truth is different for different persons, so, after you read, we invite you to download the respective product and test to see if it’s good or bad.
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer gave a talk at a company event in the UK last week saying that Red Hat customers need to pay Microsoft for its beloved Intellectual Property.
Written by theFUDterrier on October 10th, 2007 with no comments.
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In today’s computing technology, when you have more horse-power in the cheapest computers on the market than you would’ve dreamed say 5 years ago, one almost ridiculous aspect of the battle between open vs closed source software and open standards vs closed standards is the so called “fight of proving that my application is faster […]
Written by theFUDterrier on April 17th, 2006 with no comments.
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Vnunet (http://www.vnunet.com) has a great article in which they speak about one flavor of Linux maintained by a big company and draws the conclusion that Linux in general is not to be used yet.
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2153346/migration-costs-holding-back.
Our remaining question: How can one company’s flavour of linux be defined simply as “Linux” in a title?
~from the FUD detector […]
Written by cdriga on April 8th, 2006 with no comments.
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