It's marketing propaganda in just one more attempt to justify their outmoded system, just as the slave-owners did til the end of the civil war....
As someone else above said, these are the people who are being paid from the work of the authors, not one author praising them or presenting that side of the story, for other side of the coin all you have to do is visit various blogs:
http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/
http://kriswrites.com/
http://www.deanwesleysmith.com/
http://sonsofcorax.wordpress.com/201...el-j-sullivan/
http://www.barryeisler.com/index.php