From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jun 7 10:33:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from ham.eoni.com (ham.eoni.com [216.228.192.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B01C37BDEC for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 10:33:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phat@eoni.com) Received: from portable1 (hrmppp198-147.eoni.com [216.228.198.147]) by ham.eoni.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA19995 for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 10:33:23 -0700 Message-ID: <007001bfd0a7$a55218c0$93c6e4d8@portable1> From: "Jason Wilcox" To: References: <3.0.6.32.20000607093152.008b4910@mail85.pair.com> Subject: Re: Anti-BSD FUD Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 10:41:42 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "G. Adam Stanislav" To: "Brett Glass" ; Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 7:31 AM Subject: Re: Anti-BSD FUD > Strange thing... I wanted to make sure to know what exactly "fud" means, so > I checked Merriam-Webster's online dictionary (http://www.m-w.com/). > > According to the dictionary, "fud" is synonymous with "fuddy-duddy", which > is a (circa) 1904 word meaning "one that is old-fashioned, unimaginative, > or conservative." > > But I don't think that's what you had in mind. > > Anyway, I always thought fud was a linuxy slang word for twisting > propaganda. If my understanding of the word is correct, then I would not > say the article is fud. I just thought I would point out that FUD is a word that is used outside of the computer community also, I remember it being used more than once by Bad Religion in some of their songs, and I believe Propagandhi does also. ------------------------------------------------------ Jason Wilcox phat@eoni.com They say before you die your life flashes before your eyes; make it worth watching. ------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message