The Devil Mountain Software scandal deepens
Larry Dignan at ZDNet has done some excellent investigative journalism on the Devil Mountain Software (DMS) scandal and the story gets more bizarre by the minute. It’s an extremely complex fiasco that needs to be read to be believed, but the gist of the story goes as follows.
It all started with a dubious “Alarming” report from DMS‘ Randall C. Kennedy (AKA “Craig Barth”) claiming that Microsoft Windows 7 consumes too much memory resources on personal computers led to wide scale condemnation from various technology columnists/bloggers. If the original report which was filled with errors wasn’t bad enough, DMS made things worse by investigating the Arstechnica jounalist Peter Bright who debunked the DMS report by mining the information from Mr Bright’s computer obtained when Bright investigated DMS. All hell broke loose over the weekend and IDG’s InfoWorld has fired Randall C. Kennedy on the grounds of Kennedy misrepresenting himself as Craig Barth. However, Larry Dignan found that IDG’s link with Kennedy, Barth, and Devil Mountain Software appears to be deeper. The full story is much more complex but you can read about it here.
Update – Paul Thurrott has more background on this. Gregg Keizer of ComputerWorld has posted an honest apology for being fooled by Kennedy.
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