Re: [fc] Charter brainstorm

[Marek Habersack <grendel@vip.net.pl>]

* Thomas Pfau said:
> Somewhere on the net someone posted a definition of the term 'FUD'. 
> Does anyone have a pointer to it?
I posted it here and its in http://fud-counter.nl.linux.org/rationale.html
 
> ioctlatoi'lseek wrote:
> >    *  Point by Point comparisions of differing OS does possibly have
> >       a place on site and in discussion, only if done tactifully,
> >       and in a manner that cites each and every 'fact' of comparision,
> >       so that we may maintain a high level of intergrity.
> 
> Of course, this has to include all meaningfull comparisons whether
> favorable to linux or not.
Very true. We should not refrain from admiting that Linux does this or that
worse than other operating systems. The important thing to do is to let the
audience know that we are working on improvements and working hard.

> >       about the FUD that brought them to the site, but also about
> >       Linux itself.   Generally people want to belong to a group,
> >       but they do not want that group to consist of loudmouth looneys.
> 
> As I've stated before, the term 'FUD' gets thrown around as a quick
> emotional response and therefore detracts from the objectivity of the
> site.  We are not countering 'FUD' but 'misrepresentations and partial
> truths'.
I agree here. That's why I was against the term as well. It should be
explained, introduced but not used as a weapon.
 
> >    *  Opinion pieces should be kept to a seperate area, so that one
> >       browsing the site will have it further reinforced that everything
> >       But the opinions area is fact, and those emotion based pieces
> >       are to be found solely in the opinions area.
> 
> I do believe we need an opinions page clearly represented as such.
And possibly an open one. Kind of a web-based mailing list where people can
post what they think straight from the browser.
 
> >    *  For a name I may suggest ...
> > 
> >                             The Linux Myth:
> >            The truth about Linux, Open Source Software, and You.
> > 
> >       This is a play on what prompted creation of this entity,
> >       Microsoft's own FUD paper, contains self-irony, and sounds catchy.
> 
> Sounds good to me.
Maybe it should say "The GNU Myth"? And the subtitle could stay as it is?
 
> >       on us with distilled truth.  And nothing but truth.  If we don't
> >       win with truth, then we win the same way those we seek to refute won.
> 
> Keep it objective and factual.
And cool. Above all cool.

marek

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