Letter to Tucows Editor (Score 1)

After reading these articles I chose to write a little letter.

It is interesting that you point out that these reviewers are getting
"Free" software from linux companies. Mandrake and Redhat Both fall mostly
under the GPL therefor the software is FREE to begin with. If these
reviewers are actually linux people and know squat about linux they would
know that there is little or no software that they should ever have to pay
for (I personally think this is the downfall of the linux corporate
community how can you honestly make money off something that is free).

I would be interested to know what kind of software they are getting for
free. It would be my impression that these tactics have been used in the
MS world for a LONG time. Getting expensive software (Office, Visio..) for
free would be great. I do not see the extreme benefit from getting (in
comparison) StarOffice, RedHat, Mandrake, SuSE for fee. (If you add up the
cost of all these products they don't compare to the cost of Office 2k).

You may in-fact have a point about bias software reviews but I don't think
that the reasoning behind them is getting free software for free. I think
it is more a lack of people to do critical reviews. If I use redhat and I
think it is great then why would I put out a bad review (I use debian it
is better!). I think there is a lack of people with the technical
expertise to evaluate linux software and then to have the desire to write
a review on it.