I'm on it, Get on it, The troops are on fire

Enigma Software have apparently got their knickers in a twist over some blog postings relating to spam promoting their software on forums, Digg.com and various other things that make you go "Hmm". Link, link, linky mc linkalot and more links ftw. They now want security researchers to engage them on an "open, neutral forum" with regards their product and all the rest of it. Sorry Enigma, but there is no such thing as "Neutral" where issues of Spyware, Adware and Craptacular business practices exist. Everybody gets the same treatment, and if someone goofs time and time again, things will tend to take a gloomy outlook real fast.

Deal with it.

If you don't like it, stop boo-hooing and get off the Internet already. I may well choose to engage Enigma in open debate myself further down the line, but they can pretty much shove their demands for "names, addresses and phone numbers" on the basis that it is pretty much THE stupidest thing I've heard since, oh, last week.

If you don't like people voicing their concerns about lots of spam appearing on Digg.com and forums apparently related to your products, perhaps you should maybe try doing something about the people doing the spamming? This all smacks of people trying to control the direction the conversation might head in, which is complete anathema to me.

Currently, I'm content to watch this unfold and see where it goes. However, I reserve the right to remain contradictory...

/ edit - you know, I really hate the Blogger interface. I fixed a typo and lost most of the post, and it won't let me insert the rather awesome quote I had at the start either :(