If you are wondering what brought about this anti-MacUpdate rant that I am about to launch into, please see below.
Here we go: I’d like to point out to everyone that MacUpdate blatantly steals content from Versiontracker. The MacUpdate listing for Share2Blue2th would not have been incorrect if they had bothered to read my submission before ripping the info directly from the pages of VersionTracker. I also do not appreciate the way that any time I list anything on VersionTracker, I suddenly receive a nag-email from MacUpdate reminding me that I should list my software with them as well. This time, I went ahead and listed with them to try to prevent the nag-email, but instead, they ignored my submission, blatantly plagiarized the incorrect listing from VersionTracker, and I still received the same nagging email:
C.K. Sample, III,
Share2Blue2th 3.0 has just been updated to version 3.1 on MacUpdate. Check it out at:
www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/13341
Please keep MacUpdate informed of any new Mac version releases of your products, so we can promote them for you. You can update your listing by sending us an email or going to:
www.macupdate.com/email/submission.php
-Joel Mueller
www.macupdate.com [emphasis mine]
This is the same email I receive anytime there is any change in my listing at Versiontracker. I’m creating a Junk Mail filter to take this into account now, and I am no longer linking to MacUpdate until I hear that they have changed their plagiarizing ways. I advise others to do the same. They offer a good service, but they need to go about it in different ways than their current misdirected methodology. //rant off
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