Looking at their website, "denis bider" is not just "support" but the main person beyond Bitvise, FYI. He also seems to think that "Biological viruses are made up. Virology is a fake field of study. [..] Virology, like journalism, is where an entire field is fraudulent".[1] When you're so triggered having to wear a mask for public safety you just start dismissing entire fields of science that don't fit your ideology and offend you ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It's no surprise the reasoning in that email is so bizarre and barely connects to the actual question. It's just this person's personality.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20250417152336/https://blog.deni...

I'm sure in the past chiark was top. Given how popular putty at least was, for windows users, surely those search enginers should be able to override

I guess the main one gets money when someone visits putty.org though, so maybe that's it.

The era of which also coincides with the era when browsing to long URLs to university domains with tildes and usernames was commonplace

At any rate, I similarly don’t have any utility for this bitvise client either and it’s very scummy behavior and textbook trademark infringement to confuse the user by using the putty name to promote a competitor, even with that weak disclaimer