Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 19, 2005 04:19 PM
> FUD implies an intent to turn people away from a product or platform for self-serving motives.
Yes, and that's exactly what Info-Tech's biased report is intended to achieve.
You are thinking like an early adopter, which is, one of the 10 percent of people who study a new technology, and adopt it on its own merits, without waiting for everyone else to do so.
There are also 10 percent who are late adopters, but in the middle are the 80 percent majority.
The 80 percent majority will only adopt a new technology when they see other people doing so. If it wasn't for the early adopters, then the majority would never make the change.
Therefore, if this study convinces someone in the 80 percent majority that everyone else is giving up on Linux, then that person is not going to consider using Linux. It's as simple as that.
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Re:not so sure this is FUD
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 19, 2005 04:19 PMYes, and that's exactly what Info-Tech's biased report is intended to achieve.
You are thinking like an early adopter, which is, one of the 10 percent of people who study a new technology, and adopt it on its own merits, without waiting for everyone else to do so.
There are also 10 percent who are late adopters, but in the middle are the 80 percent majority.
The 80 percent majority will only adopt a new technology when they see other people doing so. If it wasn't for the early adopters, then the majority would never make the change.
Therefore, if this study convinces someone in the 80 percent majority that everyone else is giving up on Linux, then that person is not going to consider using Linux. It's as simple as that.
So, yes, it's definitely FUD.
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