On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 5:36 PM, Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, I always say things like ”I think people are stupid until the > opposite is proven”, not that I mean it very much, it's just fun to say > some times… but if the above method really works, then at least some people > must be really stupid… so I just hope that you are wrong there… :) > FUD is very old in IT circles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt I saw it happen in the 1990s in the CompuServe forums, Microsoft used the tactic against IBM's OS/2 Warp. Do a Google search for "Barkto incident". Barkto incident http://www.isham-research.co.uk/barkto.html Then it was repeated against AIM: Fake security consultant alerting on dangers of AIM turns out being MS employee Microsoft Employee's Attempt to Discredit AOL's AIM Backfires http://www.net4tv.com/voice/Story.cfm?storyID=1335 Microsoft Says Worker Wrote Smear of Rival http://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/13/business/microsoft-says-worker-wrote-smear-of-rival.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm So, FUD sadly continues to be used. Even in FOSS circles sometimes FUD is used against corporations that are FOSS players by competitors claiming to be "community" when they want to wrestle control of a project away from a firm... And don't forget another weapon in FUD: sock puppetry... Even dead people write in support of MS http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20010823&slug=microlob23 BM outed as Microsoft´s sock puppet https://web.archive.org/web/20110830181115/http://www.catchingflack.com/2007/09/burson-marsteller-outed-as-microsofts-sock-puppet/ The fact that MS got caught red handed a handful of times makes you think how many times they did the same but didn't get caught. :-/ FC -- During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act - George Orwell
