“There are a lot of great reviews on software out there, but
They don’t tell the whole story. In other words, a lot of
reviewers don’t tell you about the bugs and compatibility problems
in a program, because they keep getting free software in exchange
for glowing reviews. A good example of this is the new version of
Mandrake that recently came out. The reviews on it were great,
so great in fact, that no one mentioned anything about the down
side.”
“This was illustrated when one of the reviewers at Tucows Linux
got an e-mail from a software maker who said that we should have
given his software a better review, rather than pointing out all
the errors. I couldn’t believe that he e-mailed us about giving his
software a better review, because we believe that you need to know
about both sides in a review before you install software and find
out for yourself that the program has problems.”