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This paper is seriously outdated, having been written over four years ago, and I lack both time and desire to update it. Consider it for historical purposes only, as all of the examples are completely irrelevant today. While the nature of FUD has not changed, the facts on the ground continue to shift to the point where any examples will be seriously outdated by the time anybody updates any paper.

With that out of the way:

Welcome to the entry point for the FUD101 paper. This is version 1.0 of FUD101, newly updated for the one year anniversary of the initial release of the FUD101 paper. This paper attempts to explain FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt): What it is, how it is used to protect a monopoly or otherwise protect the status quo, and how to counter it. It has been updated to incorporate all of the happenings in the industry over the past year, especially the increased support offerings for Linux and the increased FUD attacks by Microsoft against Linux.

one big HTML file,

Note that I do not have PostScript or PDF versions currently available, due to the fact that LaTeX does not like all the long URLs quoted in the text (it keeps chopping them off at the right border of the page, despite the fact that I made the page as wide as possible). If you know how to make LaTeX do right here, please let me know!

The header of this page is in honor of the "Halloween Documents", internal Microsoft memos leaked to the Open Source community. See www.opensource.org/halloween/ for more information on how Microsoft thinks -- especially about Open Source and Linux. Especially note how Microsoft's response (the Halloween III document) heavily uses FUD methods to attack Linux, as does their Linux Myths FUD-fest.

More notes: No Microsoft software was used in the making of this document. It was created using the 'klyx' document processor under the "K" Desktop Environment under Linux. A LaTeX file was then exported using the 'export' menu option. The resulting LaTeX file was then handed off to LaTeX2HTML to produce the actual document, hyperlinks and all. No hand editing was done to the resulting HTML file except to put the correct image path for the icons for the navigation bar. Similarly, this web page was created using 'xemacs' under Linux.

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