So Gartner is making some noise on ethics<\/A>. Cool. It seems like it is more worried<\/A> about the ethics of its customers though, which is interesting.<\/P> “Do this, don’t do that” – the new policies make Gartner sound like a nagging mom. “You can’t use the content like that. Stay out of the park.”<\/P> So now customers can’t point to the magic quadrant without also including a full research note (and paying for it<\/EM>?)<\/P> Gartner must be stressed out if it thinks a discussion about analyst ethics is about what its clients can and can’t do with the content it produces. Gartner acts more like a 20th century software company every day. Old line proprietary. Will it start hitting up customers about “license non compliance”?<\/P> You guys need to get easier to work with, not harder.<\/P> The transparency revolution isn’t going to go away. Nor is what’s happening on blogs. If you want to be included in the conversations you have to lower the barriers to entry, not raise them. Aren’t you watching your vendor clients? In general they seem to think this blog thing is pretty cool, and perhaps they don’t need so many intermediaries to interact with enterprise customers…. <\/P> In my opinion you should post the quadrants online for bloggers to link to – that will get you some attention soon enough, and then you can drive some consulting revenues to users and vendors that want to know more. Its not rocket science. Enable information flows.<\/P>