Microsoft et al Versus Open Speech

Posted on April 20, 2001 by Dan Gillmor

  • NetworkWorldFusion: Microsoft gets tough with independent testers. Kennedy, research director for Competitive Systems Analysis, made the mistake of using benchmark testing to compare the operating systems running SQL Server without first getting written permission from Microsoft to discuss the results, which Microsoft has forced him to suppress.
  • Carlton Vogt (Infoworld): What do so many software vendors have against a free-market economy? Suppose I could only have performance and reliability data that was supplied by the automakers’ marketing departments, couldn’t test-drive the car without buying it, and first had to divest myself of my existing car.

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