Regular readers will know that end of June 2010 we sold Online Armor to Emsisoft, an Austrian security company. With the sale of Online Armor, Emsisoft aquired a cool new product to fill out their product line - and already managed to achieve a new release supporting Windows 7 64-bit.
The sale was good news for everyone - Emsisoft got a firewall product without having to write one, and Tall Emu got to focus it's CRM Product.
Not everyone is happy.
Download.com no longer receives $9.95 per month from us for the Online Armor listing, I won't be renewing our vbulletin subscription any time soon either, and this morning I read on David Matousec's website that Online Armor has been removed from testing due to his dispute with Tall Emu, who he correctly classifies as "the original vendor of Online Armor".
First thing - there's a statement on his site that says "Many of their products implement the technology that was designed, developed or tested in our labs."
This might be meant to suggest that Tall Emu uses Matousec-developed technology in our products. Certainly not the case for us, but I can't speak about the others.
I'm not going to go into the dispute with Matousec - the short version is he's trying it on, and we're not going to have a bar of it.
He claims a dispute with Tall Emu, a company not associated with Emsisoft in any way. So, why has Matousec removed an Emsisoft product from his website, if he has a dispute (however spurious) with Tall Emu ?
Strange. Strange indeed.
What it comes down to, I later discover is that David has taken this imaginary debt and contacted Emsisoft about it. Apparently, if Emsisoft gives them a large amount of money, OA can resume it's usual place at the top of the charts. If not - well, I guess we'll see.
So, it's not so strange after all :( There's a conversation going on about this at Wilders http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=281529
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