New York presses "free-speech" lawsuit against NAI
The New York State attorney general has charged that Network Associates is violating consumers' First Amendment right to free speech because legal language pinned to most of the vendor's software diskettes demands that no benchmarking or public reviews be done without Network Associates' consent.
"It's wrong and should be stricken," said New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer in a press conference Thursday announcing the lawsuit in which the state is demanding Network Associates renounce the wording or face a court fight. Spitzer said his office has met with representatives from Network Associates over the past few months to get them to change the wording on the software diskettes to his satisfaction, but to no avail.
