Ballmer's newest statements re: Red Hat and patents

[simo]

On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 17:47 +0200, list at akfoerster.de wrote:
> Am Wednesday, dem 10. Oct 2007 schrieb simo:
> 
> > > But is there any real harm done by it - except for the FUD? Or is the
> > > main harm done by such statements perhaps to Microsoft itself?
> > 
> > Given that Red Hat has a real indemnification program (that covers also
> > patent claims) it seem pure FUD to me.
> 
> The problem with FUD is, it works. :-(

Do you have proof of it working?
So far I haven't seen MS FUD working so much against the FS community,
it seem we always react very well.

Simo.