| From: | Harold Grovesteen |
| Date: | 4 Aug 2000 at 03:57:15 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: Aminet |
Many of you may not have been around when FUD was invented. It started
with IBM when they were on top of the heap.
Harold Grovesteen
Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia wrote:
>
> At 11:29 AM 8/2/00 +0000, you wrote:
> >Hi Guillermo
> >
> > > >FUD? Care to elaborate?
> > >
> > > "Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt" -- a marketing practice commonly
> > > attributed to Microsoft. The idea is to bash the competitors'
> > > products by spreading (false) rumours about their quality.
> >
> >The term was first used to refer to IBM's marketing practices
> >in the 1960s/70s.
>
> Yes, I know. However, in the past ten years or so it has
> been used almost exclusively to attack Microsoft's marketing
> practices.
>
> >These days valid questions and opinions are often discredited
> >by labelling them as FUD.
>
> True.
>
> Regards,
> G.
>
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