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● 12.09.09

●● Gartner Group Sued for Libel

Posted in Courtroom, Deception, Free/Libre Software, Law, Microsoft at 4:45 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Summary: Gartner is pulled to court for allegations of libel against non-customers

A FEW DAYS ago we added an overview page for the Gartner Group, which had been hired by Microsoft and occasionally attacked Free software.

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This is all true and the facts are undeniable. There is court material exposing that type of stuff. In fact, I was invited to take part in a documentary film (for national television) which covers this issue. In quite a timely fashion comes this new libel complaint against Gartner:

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ZL files fresh libel complaint against GartnerSoftware firm ZL Technologies has filed a new libel complaint against IT researcher Gartner, after an earlier complaint was dismissed by a court last month.The complaint, filed in a US district court in San Jose on Friday, centres on Gartner’s classification of ZL as a “niche” vendor in its Magic Quadrant reports.District Court Judge Jeremy Fogel ruled in early November that Gartner’s reports consituted “non-actionable opinion” which could not be the basis of a libel suit, but ZL argues that Gartner presents its analysts’ opinions as being “based on a body of fact”.

The text of this complaint can be found here. █

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“Analysts sell out – that’s their business model… But they are very concerned that they never look like they are selling out, so that makes them very prickly to work with.”

–Microsoft, internal document [PDF]

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