>Your competitors are doing it, if you don't, you lose.
What's far more interesting to me is the fact that your vendors are doing it. I wonder how much business efficiency could be gained by taking advantage of the fact that we all know the products our businesses are buying are oversold?
You may find it interesting that recently Malwarebytes was mentioned in relation to 230 of the DMCA which to my mind relates directly to this. They are an AV solution that holds "legitimate" software vendors that operate an above board business to the fire when they start any practice that they (Malwarebytes) determines is violating a PC users reasonable expectations. That software begins to be detected as "potentially unwanted software" and recommended for quarantine just like any other virus.
Malwarebytes spends a whole lot of time defending the fact it recommends software from these companies for removal and the recent SCOTUS memo on the topic sort of implies that the problem -- how do we determine the voracity of statements made by businesses regarding their software, especially software which exists in a constantly changing state -- may be headed towards getting worse as so few people are familiar with legislation also have good understanding of the inherent complexity of software.
Tangent: Cheat Engine, an amazing piece of software, mentions on their website that they may be detected as malicious software because they do a lot of the same things malicious software does - hook into other processes and modify their behaviour, optionally with a kernel hook.
They don't mention that their installer ships with tons of malware that they install, and more that they try to trick you into installing but you can technically opt-out.
> how much business efficiency could be gained by taking advantage of the fact that we all know the products our businesses are buying are oversold?
Not much tbh. Our only other option is to not buy, and build in-house instead. Sometimes that's worthwhile, but other times (like in the case of zoom) it still makes sense to buy the vendor's product, even if you know that it's not everything it's advertised as being.
The real efficiency is found in having people who can determine which and if you should buy a vendor's product, or if you should go in house. Specifically people who can see through the marketing BS and evaluate technologies without personal or hype bias.
What's far more interesting to me is the fact that your vendors are doing it. I wonder how much business efficiency could be gained by taking advantage of the fact that we all know the products our businesses are buying are oversold?