On Tuesday 28 January 2003 08:13 am, Jim C wrote: > Uh... FUD? > What's FUD? > > > Support by contradicting any Red Hat FUD
FUD is Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt, which is a sales technique used by people with inferior products. "Yeah, they're good, but who knows if they will be around to support you?" It is unprofessional to use FUD. The biggest users ever were the old bloated IBM (yeah the company nearly knocked out of business for its arrogance) and even bigger, Microsoft. RH is a valid linux distro and has considerable server markets, and they suffer from some problems as well (everyone has them). Their lists are unfriendly; their organization is inefficient, and they have NO systems on the Netcraft top 50 uptime list (The only two linux systems listed there are Mandrakesoft Advanced Extranet Servers). I have not seen RH using FUD, but then I haven't been paying them much attention. SuSE has used FUD against Mandrakesoft repeatedly, even to the point of timing their layoffs to the SAME day that Mandrakesoft announced its IPO. Of course SuSE has deep pockets behind it, or at least it did when it needed $45 million to stay in business (Intel and IBM). Civileme
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