This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2]

Friday, March 11, 2011

Re: [Avid-L2]

I noticed too that google search "FUD" spiked today...

though as an optimist, I think it means "found uneaten donuts"

Josh Gasster
standingman.de

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Shirley Gutierrez <guanacaa@...> wrote:
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> I'm so ignorant about acronyms I had to look "FUD" up. I found some interesting definitions:
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> 1) Female Urinary Device
> 2) Fedora Users and Developers
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> 4) Fear, Uncertainty, & Doubt
> 5) Fouled Up Disinformation (polite form)
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> From: Robert Lawson <avidrhl@...>
> To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Thu, Mar 10, 2011 4:50 pm
> Subject: Re: [Avid-L2]
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> Stop spreading FUD, please.
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> Avid was completely forthcoming as to the reasoning behind the change
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> We have 50+ edit systems at CBS Hard News. I know of only two editors
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> Rob Lawson
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