Canoo Engineering: Do they suck as bad as they say they do?

Just found a great article on a writer who was reviewing the ULC product for Canoo Engineering. Due to restrictive licensing, terms of use, and high cost, the review ran into delays.

They sent me back a licence that only allows me to use the software in one virtual machine in one computer at a time, in my house. I am not allowed to reverse engineer the product. I can't even draw diagrams of how the system might work, so I certainly can't talk about that in my review.

The people at Canoo Engineering aren't nice and they're not my friends. They're self-absorbed automatons, hawking incomprehensible wares at ridiculous prices and trying to buddy-up with writers in our little Java development community so we'll vomit forth blushworthy prose about their "miraculous new MVC client software".

Consider these two quotes (from the same person): "The server-side is exposed to the developer whereas the client-side is hidden." "With ULC a developer has to implement an application's presentation layer."