Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Jun 2001 14:44:59 +0200 (CEST) | From | Marco Colombo <> | Subject | Re: When the FUD is all around (sniff). |
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On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I suppose they received some pression from M$, but if people read of a FUD > > from a M$ employed, then they can guess what is going on, if it is a > > newspaper usually telling facts in a correct way... > > It is common for newspaper staff to be corrupt, same with magazine people. > Sometimes because people generally believe in a cause and are not impartial > (which I've seen both pro and anti Linux btw) and sometimes because advertising > revenue is a good thing. > > > The situation is going to be sad > > There is a saying in he UK 'You can fool all of the people some of the time, > you can fool some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all of the > people all of the time'. You only have to look at the incredibly dim view > technical people take of most printed reviews to see that. > > Alan
The problem here is the audience. That was on a major Italian newspaper, and targeted to business people. This is not technical FUD you can find on some magazines ("NT is faster" and so on). I personally don't care a bit, I've enough arguments to turn it into a holy war, at least. But the article summary could be: "Microsoft legal problems are going to end, Linus' ones are just starting." A clear message to IT managers who are about to decide how to invest thier IT budget.
As for the saying, see http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=MSFT, and take 2 seconds to realize what that exactly means (both as a fact and as concept) and reconsider the part "but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time" (just s/people/business people/ and re-read). B-)
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