{"id":366,"date":"2008-08-01T09:06:01","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T08:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/?p=366"},"modified":"2014-04-17T10:55:48","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T09:55:48","slug":"sneaky-freeware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/366","title":{"rendered":"Sneaky freeware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was in the process of preparing a post on this subject, particularly relating to Adobe, Sun, Apple and AVG, but <a href=\"http:\/\/windowssecrets.com\/comp\/080717#story1\">Scott Dunn has beaten me to it<\/a> so go and read his article&mdash;it is really good.<\/p>\n<p>It is sad that major companies should resort to these tactics. Where I work we have an Ethical Standards Policy and I would hope that we would never do anything like this. The policy has the underlying principle &#8220;Would it look bad if reported in a newspaper&#8221; which works pretty well. That way you don&#8217;t have to worry too much about the grey areas as they sort themselves out.<\/p>\n<p>Never mind that the product you are supplying is free&mdash;live with it and grow your reputation, not use it as a marketing platform for other products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in the process of preparing a post on this subject, particularly relating to Adobe, Sun, Apple and AVG, but Scott Dunn has beaten me to it so go and read his article&mdash;it is really good. It is sad that major companies should resort to these tactics. Where I work we have an Ethical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1853,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions\/1853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}