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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>FUD wars</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../F.html" title="F"/><link rel="previous" href="FUD.html" title="FUD"/><link rel="next" href="fudge.html" title="fudge"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">FUD wars</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="FUD.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">F</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="fudge.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="FUD-wars"/><dt xmlns="" id="FUD-wars"><b>FUD wars</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/fuhd worz/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1, [from <a href="FUD.html"><i class="glossterm">FUD</i></a>] Historically, political
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posturing engaged in by hardware and software vendors ostensibly committed
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to standardization but actually willing to fragment the market to protect
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their own shares. The Unix International vs.: OSF conflict about Unix
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standards was one outstanding example; Microsoft vs. Netscape vs. W3C about
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HTML standards is another.</p></dd><dd><p> 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 <a href="../O/open-source.html"><i class="glossterm">open source</i></a>
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proponents. Nowadays, accordingly, the term is most likely to be used of
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anti-open-source propaganda emitted by Microsoft. Compare
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<a href="../A/astroturfing.html"><i class="glossterm">astroturfing</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="FUD.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="fudge.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">FUD </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> fudge</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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