On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 6:19 AM, David Painter <[email protected]>wrote:
> > You should not expect an honest review from any of the leading magazines, > especially if FRS can try to influence the reviewer with promises of fixes > and pre releases of alpha software as happened recently. Unfortunately > magazines rely on advertising revenue so integrity flied out the window. > It is fun to think that way but if you actually talk to companies who have had their products reviewed by magazines with high journalistic standards, you will find your view is not correct. I have written for and reviewed products for magazines in the past. I had very clear guidelines about what I could and could not say. Parroting manufacturers' promises of improvement was always verboten. I was only allowed to state what I had seen and measured. If I ran into a problem and the manufacturer fixed it, I was allowed to say that but I could not leave out any initial problems discovered in the course of my review. -- Brian Lloyd, WB6RQN/J79BPL 3191 Western Dr. Cameron Park, CA 95682 [email protected] +1.767.617.1365 (Dominica) +1.931.492.6776 (USA) (+1.931.4.WB6RQN) _______________________________________________ Flexedge mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used for posting topics related to SDR software development and experimentalist who are using beta versions of the software.
