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``What if?''.

This distraction technique is almost always used with FUD#2 (outright fabrication) but is also used with FUD#1 and FUD#3 (exaggeration, ``spinning'' of strengths. For example: ``Will the Linux community be supportive of 5-year-old hardware driver problems?'' (http://www.nwfusion.com/news/1109linux.html). The fabrication being disguised is the fabrication is that Linux has less hardware support than Windows NT.




1998-12-02