| From: | Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia |
| Date: | 4 Aug 2000 at 07:43:44 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: Aminet |
At 09:57 PM 8/3/00 -0500, you wrote:
That has already been said, do you have anything new to add?
>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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