Fred was again short on funds. His animation career had ended, as several dozen open source variations of his program were freely distributed. His robotic body was damaged from rust and lack of oil. His operating costs in the virtual real were insignificant, but a robot was hard to keep working. Fred was in serious trouble, and he needed a quick fix. Disheartened, he turned on his VirtuFred unit, and went to see what was happening on the web. Dodging bits of the latest Win32.LoveSan.C, worm, he soon arrived at slashdot.

Fred, after enjoy a hearty belly laugh at the assorted stupid articles of the day, he also noticed a little company named SCO who was making big bugs selling Linux licenses. Reading more, he soon realized they had presented no evidence of their claims, demanded outrageous fees for products they had no claim to sell, and generally suing everyone they could think of. Soon he had started his own internet company, Fred’s Utility Daemons. Claiming to have written a portion of the calculator program in windows XP, he demanded a usage fee of 7 dollars. Within hour, he had collected seven hundred fifty-two dollars and 8 euros. The FUD campaign spread throughout the Internet.

Using all incoming Calculator funds to rebuild his robot, he also purchased a suit, as well as a law diploma from Crazy Go Nuts University. Mass mailing everyone in America informing them that their windows computers needed to be properly licensed or a lawsuit could be brought against them. He made so much money, he wished he could write an actual Utility Daemon and make also this money fairly.

Soon FUD was everywhere, millions of people paid their 7 dollar fee, and Fred agreed to drop his case, as so many people had done the right thing. FUD began it’s next project, rewriting the terms of service for Microsoft Update to cause everyone to declare him owner of their computer. Soon, he had a legal case against thousands of people who actually used Windows Update. However, these users, knowing what they were doing, resisted the claims, saying the terms had a loophole, as “Fred” signified Fred Kruger, who issued a statement saying he returned everyone’s computer. FUD was stopped cold in it’s tracks. These sharp witted Windows users soon began to spread fear, uncertinity, and doubt over all of FUD’s claims. A massive class-action lawsuit was filed against him.

Fred, realizing he was in over his head, took all parts of value out of the Fred robot. Stuffing a wad of cash in it’s pocket, he programmed it to go to the courthouse and collapse, then burn itself after dumping out the cash. Lawyers grabbed all the cash and snuck out of the courtroom. FUD was never heard from again. No assets could be found for the company besides a neon FUD sign.

Fred moved out of his warehouse in Texas, to a Canadian Gas Station that had folded months ago. Not only could he build a robot in peace from those nosy Texans. Also, anti-FUDers couldn’t find his here, tough they burned down his old auto plant. Fred had a new robot, a years worth of oil, and a half million dollars remaining. He logged into the Internet to start his next company, Regional Technological Fred Management.

RTFM also pulled in funds for it's insanely annoying pop up ads, offering to stop the flood of flash movies for 39 cents a pop up. Using his Regional Management powers, he stemmed the flow of Internet advertising to most people, and got rich in the process. RTFM was even more successful then FUD, and he was looking forward to the expanding marketplace of the Internet.