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On Thu, 15 Jan 98 19:54:36 EST, Robert Dewar wrote: >Steve Parker says > ><< Fear, Unceartainty, Doubt. Often related to something like Microsoft >announcing that they writing a new package years before it ships to >confuse the market and keep them from buying a competitors [probably >superior] product in the meantime. They will also announce a huge and >rich feature set only to throw out half of it before it ships. In the >meantime it allows the vaporware product to take marketshare away from >competitors who can't really compete against something that doesn't exist >yet. >>> > >No, that does not quite catch the normal usage. Here you are complaining >about vaporware, which is not the same as FUD. > >Not to me anyway. > >FUD is when you create non-justifiable worries about something. FOr example >Microsoft might say > >Well we could remove Explorer using the remove feature, but we cannot >guarantee that Win95 works if you do this. Yes, we understand that it >*seems* to work, but that may be an illusion, we just can't guarantee >anything if you do that. > >Or a sales person might say. Well you have to be careful about using free >software, I have heard stories of people losing their shirts because of >problems with patents that were violated. > >Or you might say: You have to be careful with machines like the TP770, >the batteries might fall out :-) :-) > > I think I like the Microsoft analogy better. 99% of their stuff seems to me (IMHO) that it is just utter crap. Well, just my 2 cents anyways. Now, that's a good meaning of FUD. Or Apple actually shipping out an upgrade ON TIME, or making a profit. :-) -- Paul =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Paul Khoury pkhoury@loop.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Proudly using OS/2 Warp 3 & 4 Donate your idle CPU time to a needy cause. Join Team Warped and help to crack RC5-64! Check out http://www.ionet.net/~colin/rc5.html for more information. The Operating System/2 Version is 4.00 Revision 9.029 There are 28 Processes with 101 Threads. This machine's uptime is 1d 16h 0m 56s 148ms.