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FUD wars
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/fuhd worz/ , n. 1. [from FUD ] Historically, political posturing engaged in
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by hardware and software vendors ostensibly committed to standardization but
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actually willing to fragment the market to protect their own shares. The
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Unix International vs.: OSF conflict about Unix standards was one
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outstanding example; Microsoft vs. Netscape vs. W3C about HTML standards is
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another. 2. Since about 2000 the FUD wars have a different character; the
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battle over open standards has been partly replaced and partly subsumed by
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the argument between closed- and open source proponents. Nowadays,
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accordingly, the term is most likely to be used of anti-open-source
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propaganda emitted by Microsoft. Compare astroturfing.
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