hether or not Gartner Group really is engaging in FUD regarding open source, there is a good reason for it. There is big money in FUD.

There is, in fact, more money in a software industry that requires FUD than in open source, which frankly doesn’t.

Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt thrive within an absence of information. They exist to justify “the leap,” the faith you must have to sign a big contract on limited information.

Entire industries, including market research, have existed for years to manufacture and dismiss FUD. To some degree this is one of those industries.

But FUD is one of those things forced out in the open source profit press.

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