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NY AG Sues Network Associates Over License Terms
An Anonymous Coward writes: "Excite is running an article about how New York is suing McAfee over what it considers a restriction of free speech because McAfee does not allow customers from publishing reviews without prior approval from McAfee. From the article: 'In one instance, Network Associates demanded a retraction of an unfavorable review published in the online and print magazine Network World, citing a clause on its Web site that prohibits product reviews without permission, the lawsuit alleged.'"
Well, consider that *perhaps* a clueless reviewer exists in the world. A company might at least want a phone call so that any totally-dead-wrong misperceptions can be corrected before the bafoon publishes slop that damages a good product. In the case of Oracle, very few people are even *capable* of running a TPC benchmark. TPC is extremely expensive and difficult to run and interpret. Oracle, quite simply, wants to head off bafoons. I assert without proof that bafoons are abundant... can you prove me wrong? Everyone that markets software soon learns of the bafoonery of overworked, inexpert reviewers on a deadline, and either learns to manage them or dies.