Microsoft requires reviewers to sign Zune license
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| In requesting a review package for the Microsoft Zune digital audio
| player, I was recently presented with something I had never seen
| before: a license agreement for the actual review materials. The
| document a public relations representative asked me to sign
| dictated the terms by which I could use and write about the
| Zune. Consequently, I declined the opportunity to write about
| the product because I don't want the manufacturer to put
| restrictions on what I write about their products. Below is an
| explanation of what this bizarre agreement entails.
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http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/303
Why is Microsoft so afraid? What is it trying to hide? These rules it imposes
were declared illegal in Germany, IIRC. Microsoft seeks to control what
reviwers are saying about its products.
Related:
Vista licensing also limits benchmarking
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| License transfers aren't the only thing the End User License Agreement
| (EULA) for Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Vista OS limits. The license
| also puts restrictions on how benchmarks of certain components of
| the OS can be published, another issue that is raising eyebrows as
| Microsoft still has not clarified how changes will specifically
| affect users.
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| According to the Vista EULA, because the OS contains "one or more
| components" of the .Net Framework 3.0, users can conduct internal
| benchmarking of those components, but can't disclose the results
| of those benchmarks -- or measurements to compare rival products
| -- unless they comply with conditions found at a Microsoft Web
| site.
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http://www.itworld.com/Comp/2218/061101vistalicense/index.html
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