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• FUD wars: /fuhd worz/ n. [from {FUD}] Political posturing engaged in by hardware and software vendors ostensibly committed to standardization but actually willing to fragment the market to protect their own shares.
  The UNIX International vs. OSF conflict is but one outstanding example....
• holy wars n. [from Usenet, but may predate it; common] n.
  flame wars over religious issues. The paper by Danny Cohen that popularized the terms big-endian and little-endian in connection with the LSB-first/MSB-first controversy was entitled "On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace"....
• FUD /fuhd/ n. Defined by Gene Amdahl after he left IBM to found his own company
  FUD is the fear, uncertainty, and doubt that IBM sales people instill in the minds of potential customers who might be considering [Amdahl] products....
• holy wars: [from {USENET}, but may predate it] n. {flame war}s over {religious issues}.
  The paper by Danny Cohen that popularized the terms {big-endian} and {little-endian} in connection with the LSB-first/MSB-first controversy was entitled "On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace"....
• Quote #12 "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.
  -- Grace Murray Hopper [as quoted in the Unix Haters Handbook, p.10]...
• eats vs. scruffies n. The label used to refer to one of the continuing holy wars in AI research.
  This conflict tangles together two separate issues....
• eats vs. scruffies: n. The label used to refer to one of the continuing {holy wars} in AI research.
  This conflict tangles together two separate issues....
• FUD: /fuhd/ n. Defined by Gene Amdahl after he left IBM to found his own company
  FUD is the fear, uncertainty, and doubt that IBM sales people instill in the minds of potential customers who might be considering [Amdahl] products....
• BSD /B-S-D/ n. [abbreviation for `Berkeley Software Distribution'] a family of Unix versions for the DEC VAX and PDP-11 developed by Bill Joy and others at Berzerkeley starting around 1980
  incorporating paged virtual memory, TCP/IP networking enhancements, and many other features....