Miguel de Icaza responds to latest RMS article

Re:Miguel de Icaza responds to latest RMS article by ZeroGravitas on Tuesday October 06, 2009 @10:08AM (#864120)

I found it ironic that the latter half seemed to be describing Stallman's tactics as "FUD" without actually using that term. This tactic being famously employed by Microsoft.

Of course, another layer of irony is that before Microsoft became the safe choice, this was a favourite tactic of IBM, who are now considered an open source friendly company.

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Re:Miguel de Icaza responds to latest RMS article by stcredzero on Tuesday October 06, 2009 @10:32AM (#864193)

What if the Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt is actually justified? I don't think it's necessarily wrong to doubt or be uncertain that corporations have our best interests at heart.

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Re:Miguel de Icaza responds to latest RMS article by SamAtt on Tuesday October 06, 2009 @10:52AM (#864240)

The whole point of the phrase FUD is that it's an emotional response. People use it to try to overwhelm someone's rational thought process with Fear.

I think you SHOULD use past performance of a corporation as part of a rational thought process in deciding whether to use software. But FUD is never justified because emotion has no place in rational decisions.

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