Comment by ConfucianNardin
8 years ago
They're also squatting the putty.org domain to advertise their software, which is pretty bad-mannered.
8 years ago
They're also squatting the putty.org domain to advertise their software, which is pretty bad-mannered.
Thanks for pointing this out; I'd forgotten about that (having given up on Putty after discovering the difficulty of sharing configuration https://stackoverflow.com/q/13023920).
Putty.org links to the Putty download page with a disclaimer separating promotion of Bitvise software below. The contrast in marketing language between "source code [...] developed and supported by a group of volunteers" vs. "developed and supported professionally" definitely appeals directly to the Windows mindset! Unfortunately Bitvise's "growth hacking" makes commercial sense, even if it does cost them potential users.
It is always interesting to contrast various SEO approaches; for example: contrasting https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty and https://winscp.net. It would be neat if the Putty author would chime in here; perhaps a funding drive for putty.net is in order!