“You know the dog days of summer are here when reporters and
editors have nothing better to do than complain about rival media
organizations.“
“Chad Simonds, webmaster for Tucows Linux, gets credit for
kicking off this week’s most interesting flamefest with his article
bemoaning the lack of objectivity in most online software
reviews….”
“Simonds said MandrakeSoft wasn’t the only company trying to
trade free software for favorable press. He recounted an episode in
which a Tucows staffer received a free copy of an unnamed Linux
product. When the reviewer wrote a piece pointing out both the good
and the bad, Simonds says he promptly received an email from the
company, asking, essentially, “What gives?”
“[The software maker] said we should have given his software a
better review, rather than pointing out all the errors,” Simonds
said.”