This is primarily used in conjunction with FUD#2 (outright fabrication). It is aimed at distracting people away from fabrication and aiming attention instead at the people advocating the solution. Thus this sneering comment: ``No business in this country is going to wait for a 17-year-old beatnik to [answer its newsgroup post and] fix its problem." ( http://www.nwfusion.com/news/1109linux.html) Note that there are actually two fabrications in this statement: the implied statement that paid support and support contracts are not available for Linux ( see http://www.caldera.com ), and the implied statement that 17-year-old ``beatniks'' are the primary users and supporters of Linux (see http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue33/bentson.html for a survey of kernel programmers detailing their actual age and years of experience).