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5-star software? Not so fast

August 16, 2007 › Sandy McMurray | comment

Here's a great little story: software developer Andy Brice received more than a dozen software awards from web sites that never tested his software.

He knows they never tested it because the software doesn't work. His submission was not software at all; just a plain text file that does nothing (and even says it does nothing).

Read the details here: The software awards scam.

August 16, 2007 › Sandy McMurray | comment on this item

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