Mark Kent wrote:
> Roy Schestowitz espoused:
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>> The Open-Source Impact
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>> It's Gaining Ground In Larger Enterprises, But What About SMEs?
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>>| "The biggest hurdle we face is the perception that open source and |
>>Linux is just too difficult to use or lacks too many features to be |
>>effective [in smaller companies]," says Rotzow. "This is why people |
>>keep choosing Microsoft."
>> `----
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>> http://www.processor.com/editorial/article.asp?article=articles/P2845/31p45/31p45.asp&guid=
>> http://tinyurl.com/y8qoto
>>
>> Proof that FUD Still Plays a role.
>
> FUD, like all political methods, exploits the tendencies of people to
> gossip, and to pass on "secret" information, and so on. People want to
> be "in with the in-crowd", as the song used to say, and having access to
> special gossip is one way of showing credibility in this way. Supplying
> FUD into this social system is a highly effective way of using this
> tendency to push a political agenda, or indeed a business one.
>
> The best defence against FUD in this way is to keep providing the facts.
> There's nothing more damaging than showing the someone's "secret
> information" is, in fact, completely untrue, thus the effect of this
> social networking can be very thoroughly inverted, turned to good use.
Joseph Goebbels once said, "If you tell a lie big enough and keep
repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be
maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the
political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus
becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to
repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by
extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
It is interesting that the William Gates' philanthropist side is
purchasing newspaper companies. It is interesting to note that Microsoft
has been pushing this software patent agenda for a while, yet no court
cases.
Repressing dissent has been through austere licensing agreements, giving
OEM's only one choice or face unfavourable licensing agreements, etc.
Joseph Goebbels also said, “The most brilliant propagandist technique
will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind
constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over
and over.”
This explains why we keep seeing the same recurring themes with the
trolls. "The graphics, applications and fonts are totally unsuitable,
garbage, primitive desktop, only a mother could love, the OS constantly
crashes, etc." (I am being a little facetious, but I think you get the
point.)
Greatest FUD is the Linux desktop is not ready yet for mainstream usage.
It was useful 8 years ago with KDE 1.0 and Gnome. With the Corel Linux
1.1 bundled with WordPerfect 8 Suite and Corel Graphics squashed some 7
years ago secured the behemoth in power.
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