Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 10:38:33 04/13/00
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On April 13, 2000 at 13:28:45, Thorsten Czub wrote: >On April 12, 2000 at 16:52:13, Frederic Friedel wrote: >>Does Consumer Reports have to get permission from the manufacturers of each >>product whether it can be tested or not? > >the programmer or the company that owned the copyright sells the licence >agreement. The license agreement of Millennium doesn't say a word about not publishing results of their programs: Shredder 4, Genius 6.5... There are no restrictions of this sort, therefore this is not an issue. >if the programmer or the company owning that right, does not want the customer >to do something with the product, the licence agreement >is not accepted by the company. >the customer can send the product to the distributor and gets the money back. >if you buy a book, you accept the copyright laws of the country you buy the >book. you are e.g. not allowed to print those books again in and sell them >for your own. therefore you would need again the allowance of the publishers >or the writer. >same with programs. >washing machines are of course different matter. or cars. > >>Can and has a manufactuere successfully >>instructed Consumer Reports not to publish the results of a test? How exactly >>can you aim to be "independent" if you have to abide by such instructions? > >the ssdf are not independent. Ah! Do you mean: - they are biased - they are bought >>Just curious to know. So am I. Could you develop, preferably with some evidence? Enrique
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