[KLUG Members] New acronym: Outside Reality, Technically Speaking (ORTS)

[Bryan J. Smith]

FUD is "Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt" -- largely a political tactic to play
upon the unknowing.  FUD is usually debatable in some way.

ORTS is "Outside Reality, Technically Speaking" which is a new term I
propose (unless someone else has?) -- for when arguments violate
technical reality, not political views.  It's use should be limited
against those statements that are flat out technically false or
incorrect.

ORTS is usually something that is used in haste when a company is backed
into a corner, which destroys their credibility beyond what simple bias
and/or hypocrisy does alone.  E.g., like ADTI did in their NewsForge
interview regarding their Open Source "study" when they tried to "limit"
it to only the GPL when it was discovered that they run Apache on their
servers.

I.e.:

FUD:  "Open Source provides a technical blueprint for terrorists to
exploit."

ORTS:  "GPL/Copyleft Open Source provides a technical blueprint for
terrorists to exploit while BSD and BSD-like Open Source does not."

Use it or tell me to shouve it.  I think its a good idea to make a
distinction, but feel free to disagree with me.  I'd like to hear your
views, or a better acronym.

-- Bryan

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The US government could be 100x more effective, and 1/100th the
Constitutional worry, if it dictated its policy to Microsoft as
THE MAJOR CUSTOMER it is, and not THE REGULATOR it fails to be.
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