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FUD 101

Eric Lee Green

December 1, 1998

Abstract:

FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt) is a tactic often used by vendors within a monopoly market in order to propagate their monopoly. The purpose of this paper is to examine common FUD tactics that can be used against commodity products which threaten such a monopoly, in the context of the Linux operating system. [Postscript version is at: http://www.linux-hw.com/eric/fud101.ps.gz, PDF version is at: http://www.linux-hw.com/eric/fud101.pdf]






1998-12-02