Fear Uncertainty Doubt

Slashdot | Rating System for Open Source Software: "FUD from the NYT (Score:4, Insightful)
by Catamaran (106796) on Monday August 01, @06:39PM (#13218120)
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The author of the article talks as though evaluating software objectively were a problem unique to adopters of Open Source:

Free software, despite the price, can be confusing and costly for corporations to use. A few freely distributed programs, like the Linux operating system and the Apache Web server, have become well known, but most are still unproved.

A more simple and accurate statement would be, 'Software can be confusing and costly'."