[msdrigg]

Relevant to dave plummer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39813625

> Now, as to the tidbit. Dave Plummer ran a scam company that was sued by Washington State in 2006, "SoftwareOnline.com, Inc. ". He actually left Microsoft specifically to run this company.

> Court documents can be seen here: https://www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-releases/attorney-general-s... You can find David W. Plummer listed in the court complaint.

> The short of it is that it was an online software scam company that tricked people into downloading fake Anti-virus and security software using online ads, and then the software delivered additional adware and nagware onto users machines.

[chuckadams]

The term “ad hominem” gets casually thrown around quite a bit in these parts, but boy howdy this is the literal textbook case of it. Plummer’s not one of the good guys, noted. Is he factually wrong?

[TiredOfLife]

The stuff he claims on his videos are at best misleading at worst outright lies. Like his recent claim that he made the vertical text in Windows start menu render in real time instead of a bitmap. Except every version of Windows (released/beta/unreleased or even the various source code leaks) that had that type of start menu used a bitmap.

[fnordpiglet]

That was like 18 years ago and not relevant to the topic or thread. People make mistakes in life and deserve to be able to move past them.

[_zoltan_]

Almost 20 years ago. Not sure if it's relevant. certainly not to crowdstrike.

[timetraveller26]

wow I didn't expected that

That doesn't invalidate the parent comment tough