Wirt writes:
> A number of people have written me and asked[...]

From:

   http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/FUD.html

FUD /fuhd/ n.

Defined by Gene Amdahl after he left IBM to found his own company: "FUD is
the fear, uncertainty, and doubt that IBM sales people instill in the minds
of potential customers who might be considering [Amdahl] products." The
idea, of course, was to persuade them to go with safe IBM gear rather than
with competitors' equipment. This implicit coercion was traditionally
accomplished by promising that Good Things would happen to people who stuck
with IBM, but Dark Shadows loomed over the future of competitors' equipment
or software. See IBM. After 1990 the term FUD was associated increasingly
frequently with Microsoft, and has become generalized to refer to any kind
of disinformation used as a competitive weapon.

G.

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