{"id":2229,"date":"2003-01-18T18:57:45","date_gmt":"2003-01-18T18:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=2229"},"modified":"2003-01-18T18:57:45","modified_gmt":"2003-01-18T18:57:45","slug":"reviewing_softw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=2229","title":{"rendered":"Reviewing Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/01\/18\/business\/18SOFT.html?ex=1043557200&#038;en=feead35b04f1c953&#038;ei=5007&#038;partner=USERLAND\">Court Rules Against Network Associates&#8217; Software Review Policy<\/a>. A court has ruled that the company may not require people who buy its software to get permission before publishing reviews of its products. By Matt Richtel. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/pages\/technology\/index.html\">New York Times: Technology<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p \/>\n<p>I remember when I first read about this I was kind of stunned.  I don&#8217;t know of any other kind of product where the maker tries to insist that you must have their permission to review it.  If someone requires permission I&#8217;m immediately suspicious.  Even though I understand their reasoning I still think it is wrong to restrict what people can write.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Court Rules Against Network Associates&#8217; Software Review Policy. A court has ruled that the company may not require people who buy its software to get permission before publishing reviews of its products. By Matt Richtel. [New York Times: Technology] I remember when I first read about this I was kind of stunned. I don&#8217;t know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}