FUD Never Changes
Hey, it's our old friend FUD making an appearance yet again! FUD, of course, stands for "fear, uncertainty and doubt," and is a weapon that Microsoft has long been accused of using to stave off competition and try to sow just enough doubt in customers' minds to back them off from using non-Microsoft products.
Does it work? Apparently Microsoft thinks so, because it's employing it again in the form of comments from chief platform strategist Bill Hilf. Hilf said that Linux doesn't really threaten Windows on the desktop; that's fine. Nobody's going to have a problem with that assertion. But he then went on to claim that Linux as an advanced, integrated server platform is also no challenge to Windows because "end users don't want to do testing unless they're a developer" and "most open-source code is terribly inferior to commercial software code."
I mean, c'mon. That's flatly ridiculous, not to mention insulting.
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