I've just been reading an interesting article by Eric S. Raymond (_The Cathedral and the Bazaar_, http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar). In it he is commenting on what he believes to be an authentic internal M$ document talking about the challenge presented by the open source movement.
Anyway, my question for the list is, "does anyone know what FUD is". I have recently seen this acronym floating around in relation to how big companies like micromush are going to combat against the growing threat posed by open source. These references are always saying stuff like normal FUD tactics won't work. I feel like I'm missing just a little bit of the flavour of these articles, so if anyone can enlighten me I'd be really FUDing happy :). BTW, the article I said I was reading is at http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/halloween.html TIA, Gerald