This is usually used when the FUD has received an effective counter from the FUDee, and is used to distract attention away from the fact that the FUDmonger has no effective response. It is usually stated obliquely so that it is difficult to spot it out in the open. For example, ``the skeptics generally scoff at the notion and accuse the zealots of putting Microsoft-bashing ahead of their better business sense'' ( http://www.nwfusion.com/news/1109linux.html ) is an example of FUD#2 being disguised behind questioning the FUD victim's motives. The FUD is the implication that ``the only reason you'd want to use Linux is if you're a Microsoft-basher''. Simon Cooke of Microsoft similarly slammed James Love of the Consumer Project on Technology on the MSNBC Technology bulletin board as being biased because his cousin is a vice president of Caldera. Again, an attempt to distract the bystander's attention from the merits of the argument.