Hoist with their own FUD: an old marketing tactic is backfiring
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| Established IT vendors have long relied on "fear, uncertainty, and doubt" to
| scare their customers away from the upstarts. But customers are getting tired
| of it, and a new generation of vendors is finding that FUD only makes them
| stronger.
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| "Sophisticated customers aren't listening to the old open source FUD, like
| it’s insecure or of poor quality, so they've tried new techniques like
| attacking the licensing issues or the threat of action from Microsoft or SCO
| on patent infringement."
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/112907-fud.html
Related:
Google's Android just a press release, says Ballmer
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| Google's plans to enter the mobile industry with a cell phone platform might
| have impressed many in the industry but not Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft
| and one of Google's biggest competitors.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/110807-googles-android-just-a-press.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
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