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The PUTTY.ORG website is not affiliated with the official PuTTY SSH client by Simon Tatham, causing widespread confusion among users and developers. The domain is owned by Bitvise, a commercial SSH software vendor, who initially used it to link to the real PuTTY before promoting their own products. Following criticism from a blogger, Bitvise replaced the site's content with anti-vaccination propaganda, escalating the controversy and raising concerns about professional conduct in the software industry.

Controversy over PUTTY.ORG website growing fast

<p>If you’re really going to use Windows then you could use WSL for a more normal SSH experience, PuTTY always felt like plain wtf to me</p>


<p>Either, you buy all the domains that contain your name or you simply have to accept, that the owner of any particular domain can do whatever he wants with it.</p>
