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	Fear, uncertainty and doubt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		FUD is a manifestation of the appeal to fear.
		Opponents of certain large computer corporations state that the spreading of fear, uncertainty, and doubt is an unethical marketing technique that these corporations consciously employ.
		FUD can be used to offhandedly "smear" criticism or legitimate debate, even in cases where the allegations are without merit or are merely implied; this tactic is often used in cases where the initial publicity surrounding claims of FUD is likely to vastly overshadow any subsequent retraction.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/FUD (998 words)

	Fear, uncertainty and doubt Online Research :: Information about Fear, uncertainty and doubt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) is a Sales or Marketing strategy of disseminating negative but vague or inaccurate information on a competitor's product.
		FUD was first defined by Gene Amdahl after he left International Business Machines to found his own company, Amdahl Corporation : "FUD is the fear, uncertainty, and doubt that IBM sales people instill in the minds of potential customers who might be considering Amdahl products." [1]
		Who actually utilizes FUD is a question that leads to difficulties with distinguishing Objective truth and Subject (philosophy) Truth.
	www.ncweddingplanner.com /search/FUD.html (816 words)

	FUD - Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt
		(Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt) A not so affectionate term used by Microsoft’s critics to describe the spin created by the company’s PR techniques regarding the products of Microsoft’s competitors.
		Fear, uncertainty and doubt-what most people feel when a new technology or industry threatens their existing world.
		The usefulness of using FUD to confuse a market is epitomized by the apocryphal saying, "No one ever got fired for buying IBM." A good example of FUD is Microsoft's tactic of pre-announcing products far in advance of their actual availability.
	www.auditmypc.com /acronym/FUD.asp (271 words)

	The Newbie's Guide to Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt
		FUD is yet another method often employed by a party (typically a vendor in our context) to help propogate their product or service.
		FUD's primary goal is to scare consumers away from using superior P&S in favor of inferior (yet often more recognized) P&S. According to the New Hackers Dictionary (aka the Jargon file), FUD is defined as: FUD /fuhd/ n.
		After 1990 the term FUD was associated increasingly frequently with Microsoft, and has become generalized to refer to any kind of disinformation used as a competitive weapon.
	www.attrition.org /~jericho/works/security/fud.html (1600 words)

	The FUD Factor - CSO Magazine - April 2003
		Instead of research and risk analysis, many of the agents' arguments were based on guesswork and were rooted in the fear and uncertainty of Sept. 11.
		A CSO's persistent use of FUD tactics will eventually color management's view of everything he says and does, affecting their perception of his abilities and the security function as a whole.
		CSOs say FUD is the last resort of those who haven't forged critical executive partnerships and set in place education initiatives that broaden the base of security responsibility.
	www.csoonline.com /read/040103/fud.html (2981 words)

	What is FUD
		FUD sands for Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt.It is a marketing technique used when a competitor launches a product that is both better than yours and costs less, i.e.
		This classic FUD pack occurred together with a dealer package designed to make it financially advantageous to offer MS DOS with windows, and the result is history.
		Whilst the DR DOS case may be one of the most significant events in the story of the PC, my favorite FUD factor event pre-dates this, before FUD was a household world, and the story relates to hardware, not software.
	www.cavcomp.demon.co.uk /halloween/fuddef.html (903 words)

	Fact Check
		Promoting Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD) is the central strategy of BellSouth and Cox in their battle to prevent local development of a fiber to the home plan.
		Most of it falls under the broad but telling category of "Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt: "FUD." The strategy has a long, dishonorable history in the world of technology and has recently been employed against a number of communities in an effort to distract citizens from the fundamental advantages of fiber optic networks.
		Instead, the strategy is to surround the proposal which they hope to block with a whispering campaign of fear where none is warranted, and to introduce ungrounded uncertainty and doubt about the very idea.
	lafayetteprofiber.com /FactCheck/FUD.html (854 words)

	Fear Uncertainty And Doubt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The term "Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt" was apparently coined by GeneAmdahl who supposedly used it when describing a tactic used by the InternationalBusinessMachines salesforce to cause potential customers of Gene's new company, AmdahlCorporation?
		The tendency of human beings to let negative emotions such as fear, uncertainty, and doubt constrain their choices and decisions, which might otherwise be based on a more rational or pragmatic basis.
		"FUD" can be an effective tactic a "market leader" can use to discourage customers from going to the competitors: The more fear, uncertainty or doubt a person has, the more likely they'll want to "go with the safe bet" -- the market leader.
	c2.com /cgi/wiki?FearUncertaintyAndDoubt (245 words)

	The FUD-based Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		For the uninitiated, FUD stands for “Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt.” It is a term popular within the free software community, used to describe the use of lies and deceptive rhetoric, aimed chiefly at free software projects.
		In brief, the goal of FUD is to make money when the free software competition cannot be defeated fairly in the marketplace.
		CEOs such as Larry Ellison and Scott McNealy advance FUD from time to time as it suits them, but are not as single-mindedly unrelenting as the worst of the bunch.
	freesoftwaremagazine.com /free_issues/issue_02/fud_based_encyclopedia (1251 words)

	Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt
		FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt) was originally defined by Gene Amdahl after he left IBM to found his own company.
		He used it to describe the fear, uncertainty, and doubt that the IBM sales people were spreading to their customers who might be considering the competitions products.
		More recently the term FUD has increasingly become associated with Microsoft, using the tactic to ensure customers stay with their products.
	linux.togaware.com /survivor/Fear_Uncertainty.html (399 words)

	Combating fear, uncertainty, and doubt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		By inspiring fear, uncertainty, and doubt, either about the product or the company in general, the attacking firm tries to run off their competitor's customers, without contributing anything positive themselves.
		That fear might be grounded in the fears of adolescence, where a young man or woman worries about being spurned by a prospective date.
		Give in to FUD, and all of a sudden, the shadows under your bed turn into monsters, every passerby is an enemy, and the future becomes a terrifying experience.
	www.salesstar.com /mm081803.htm (1389 words)

	Fear, Uncertainty And Doubt Factor Into Internet Insecurity
		John Pescatore, a security analyst at Gartner, said the incessant warnings about cyber-terrorism don't "make a lot of sense." He said many software vendors are overstating the threat in the wake of the mainstream media's reporting on the Slammer worm.
		He described the media-driven fear of cyber-terrorism as "total hogwash," arguing that hacking attacks on Internet networks should not be put in the same class as terrorist attacks on physical targets.
		When the political strife in the Middle East escalated last year, Pescatore said cyber-attacks against Israeli and U.S. financial institutions did increase but he argued it was "pure hypesmanship" to put those kinds of cyber-attacks in the class of a suicide attack by a terrorist.
	www.smallbusinesscomputing.com /testdrive/article.php/1583651 (985 words)

	My Little Therapy: Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Fear of my reaction to Monday's episode being itself fear.
		Uncertainty of why she behaves like she does.
		Uncertainty of being uncertainty itself on her part what drives her, or that she is cruelly playing with my feelings.
	www.20six.co.uk /weblogEntry/s3jjt77jpako (484 words)

	ed fitzgerald's unfutz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This is something that some members of my e-mail discussion group have been speculating about for a while now, and certainly one cannot reject it out of hand, because it's just the kind of thing that Rove would do if he could.
		That being said, it's far from clear-cut that the rumors that are going around aren't simply Bush propaganda-by-proxy, intended to incite in the American electorate FUD* about changing horses in mid-stream.
		Fear, Uncertainty* and Doubt, the triumvirate which was so instrumental in maintaining IBM's near-monopoly over corporate computing in the mainframe era.
	unfutz.blogspot.com /2004/02/catching-osama-fud-factor.html (416 words)

	internet freedom: articles-11-Feb-2002 \| Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt
		When doubts about its development and use are combined with a pessimistic view of the human condition, then it is inevitable that it becomes something to be feared.
		The complexity of the technological infrastructure is seen as beyond the capacity of humanity to consciously direct and as such, assumes a dynamic of its own.
		The sense of fear about the vulnerability of the Internet has more to do with the manifestation of doubts about life in a technologically advanced society and a loss of nerve by Western elites than any threat from terrorists.
	www.netfreedom.org /news.asp?item=178 (1254 words)

	Facing Down Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt
		It referred to our industry's favourite sport, on both sides of the 49th - fear mongering - and introduced a new (new to me at least) acronym — FUD, for fear, uncertainty, doubt.
		Of course, some trade associations thrive on fear because they believe it mobilizes their membership and gives the industry a higher purpose than the daily chore of selling real estate."
		Is it because of the relatively high turnover in real estate that we so readily forget the boogiemen of the past and fail to recognize the same old ghost in a new bed sheet who emerges in a poltergeist-like cyclical event, usually to a standing ovation from some circuit speaker at one of our conventions?
	www2.jurock.com /articles/printer.asp?id=3700 (782 words)

	Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt - Glossary
		The term, which stands for fear, uncertainty and doubt, was originally coined in the 1970s in reference to IBM's marketing technique of spreading rumors about a competitor's new product to dissuade customers from taking a "risk" by buying it.
		In the security department it takes the form of scare tactics used to persuade adaptation of certain practices or acquire funding.
		Fear, uncertainty and doubt may help scare your company into short-term compliance, but CSOs say that's a shortsighted strategy.
	www.csoonline.com /glossary/term.cfm?ID=1223 (161 words)

	RoughlyDrafted
		While Microsoft obviously benefits from FUD campaigns that warn of the dire risk of investing in anything non-Microsoft, the analysts generating the FUD do so for their own benefit.
		All through history, there have been classes of scribes or clerics who made a profession of warning the masses to grovel in fear of the existing authorities.
		The fear they instilled ensured not only the continued reign of the existing power system, but also kept life comfortable for those generating the fear.
	www.roughlydrafted.com /Jun05.analfail1.html (381 words)

	Overcoming Fear, Uncertainty & Doubt
		Sometimes the use of FUD is insidious, cloaked in a message that is designed to plant the seedlings of self-doubt and thus deter you from your dreams.
		During the beginning of her goal, she started doubting her efforts and saying things like, "I've always been fat – I will never lose this weight." Sure enough, FUD began to overwhelm her thoughts and soon she had given up on her longtime dream of having a toned physique.
		You can defeat FUD imagining yourself achieving your goals, tuning out negative remarks by others, personal negative self-talk and finally, surrounding yourself around others who have similar interests.
	www.enotalone.com /article/2701.html (1406 words)

	Open Source Initiative OSI - Peru answers MS FUD
		This is so because by defining with no room for doubt the conditions for the provision of software, it prevents state bodies from using software which has a license including discriminatory conditions.
		This free initiative is of course compatible with the freedom of industry and freedom of contract (in the limited form in which the State can exercise the latter).
		The use of proprietary software raises serious doubts as to whether these requirements can be fulfilled, lacks conclusive evidence in this respect, and so is not suitable for use in the public sector.
	www.opensource.org /docs/peru_and_ms.php (4708 words)

	Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt
		What I dislike most about the disaster types is that their message is primarily "Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt" about the future.
		Computers don't have a builtin mechanism for panic on a message of fear, uncertainty, and doubt.
		There's good news attached to our message-- eternal life for believers-- and only fear, uncertainty and doubt attached to the "Year 2000" disaster message.
	www.visi.com /~nathan/xtian/fudy2k.html (1309 words)

	FUD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Defined by Gene Amdahl after he left IBM to found his own company: “FUD is the fear, uncertainty, and doubt that IBM sales people instill in the minds of potential customers who might be considering [Amdahl] products.
		After 1990 the term FUD was associated increasingly frequently with
		Microsoft, and has become generalized to refer to any kind of disinformation used as a competitive weapon.
	www.catb.org /~esr/jargon/html/F/FUD.html (238 words)

	NewsForge \| Microsoft displays fear, uncertainty, and doubt toward OpenOffice.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It is so childish and so FUD filled all on its own there is no reason to even bother.
		But the Office article is Microsoft's response to their losing their shirt (and their 80% monopoly profit margin) due to their failure to compete with OpenOffice.org (hold your keyboards, Microsofties, we'll compare my claim over the next couple of quarters).
		An important -but often forgotten part of the FUD is the $4.8 billion RandD budget.
	www.newsforge.com /software/04/03/27/0134204.shtml (6898 words)

	no Fear Uncertainty Doubt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		My slides for the Rapid Threat Modeling presentation at Black Hat 2005 can be found here.
		Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: The Hackers Turn Pro
		A great analysis by the Yankee group on the security posture of products from security vendors.
	nofud.org (609 words)

	Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt. \| Spread Firefox
		Microsoft is almost as well known for using FUD to trick their customers as they are for their Windows operating system.
		But I didn't write this post to complain about Microsoft's FUD techniques.
		I think this is more of hype rather than FUD.
	www.spreadfirefox.com /node/12322 (1315 words)

	Prion Disease: Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt About Sheep BSE
		The purpose of various USDA and Vermont Dept of Health press releases was to spread fear, uncertainty, and doubt (shortened to FUD by professionals).
		The U section stressed that so many uncertainties surround this mysterious disease that several more years of study (transgenic mice) would be necessary to even determine whether it was BSE, so they had to act now in an abundance of caution.
		Consequently, fears were raised about the possibility that the disease might constitute a possible health risk for humans, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, the human form of the disease, and the U.S. government has chosen to err on the side of caution.
	www.mad-cow.org /00/jul00_dont_eat_sheep.html (17492 words)

	THE UNION AND FUD (FEAR, UNCERTAINTY and DOUBT)
		THE UNION AND FUD (FEAR, UNCERTAINTY and DOUBT)
		The WFSE has a strategy of using Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD) to influence employees.
		Has the Union appealed to FUD or have they provided complete reliable information that you can use to make rational decisions about union support and ratification of the contract?
	mywebpages.comcast.net /c_fhui/FUD.htm (288 words)

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