Saturday, February 16, 2008

Welcome to GNU Consumer Reports

Welcome to GNU Consumer Reports. The idea behind GNU Consumer Reports is that we will start rating companies based on everything from their policies, prices, people, use of free and open source software, where their products are manufactured, services, compatibility, hack ability, reliability, stability, kindness, bla bla bla.

We are currently registering domain names that will be rerouted to this site. During that time we will be writing reviews and working on this site. We hope to launch the site soon and advertise it web wide. The main difference between this site and others is that we are not going to rate companies better based on how much they pay us to do it or how nice they are to us but rather on the facts and real world experiences. One of our tests will be to call a customer service rep from the company 10 times and see if the people are friendly and if they can speak good English.

We will rate all of our categories based on 5 stars and we will base the overall score on this 5 penguin system. We will allow you to comment on our posts and on your experience with the companies.

If you have any ideas for companies we should write about please comment here।

Rating System:
This company is perfect or close too it. (walks on water and swims well)
This company is worth using. (an average penguin)
Use this company at your own risk. (this penguin has a hard time keeping up)
DANGER This company is not trusted. (this penguin is drowning)
Ok now you are just asking for trouble. (this penguin's belly is constantly pointed up and he smells diffrent)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi there --

This is a great idea, reviewing products without favoritism, however I have to say that I find it more than a little ironic that you're using penguins rather than gnus in your rating system.

Bet Stallman and the others at gnu.org may not approve . . . :-)

NinjaPenguinMaster said...

Well as nice as Richard Stallman has been to me helping me with my PR in Ultumix and all we don't agree on a few things.
1. He does not like Adobe Flash. I have permission from their company to redistribute it.
2. He thinks using non open source drivers from Nvidia and ATI are bad. Hey as long as I can download it for free and it does what I want I approve.

Other than that we agree on most everything.

What is your software preference?