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there is now a blog post with "clarifications" on macbartender.com and surteesstudios.com but just like their response in reddit this just strengthens the concerns instead of alleviating them
the problem is not that the certificate change was not communicated, the problem is that the sale of the company/app was not communicated
ugh. thats just wrong, it's trivial to notarize malware and we've even seen plenty of malware and spyware on the Mac App Store. saying things are alright because the app is notarized is an argument usually only PuP vendors make. knowing Ben as a competent developer and upright person i question whether this really comes from him.
ugh. it could also prove that the domain www.surteesstudios.com was sold alongside the app and the other domains like bartender.com, macbartender.com ... in fact it is likely that surteesstudios.com was also sold, because the account "Ben Surtees" [email protected] has been inactive since this situation has been going on. if he had not sold surteesstudios.com why would his e-mail account have vanished? |
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Hello there. Also, as I said in the Reddit thread, surteesstudios.com redirects to macbartender.com. Surtees Studios domain was updated 17h April, which means during or after acquisition, depending if we listen the new owner on Reddit that claimed they bought Bartender two months ago, or "Ben" (lol) who says in his ridiculous statement three months ago. And... Ben's letter sounds exactly like yesterday new owner replies on Reddit. To me, it seems like Applause made another shady move here. And, if you're wondering, no, I don't believe Earth is flat. |
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This just gets weirder in my opinion. I'm not much of a conspiracy theorist but you can't tell me that statement and this old blog post were written by the same person https://www.macbartender.com/b5blog/Bartender5-over-a-decade/ Why even mention that the post can be "verified" and then just link to another domain as proof. |
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I personally think new owners prepared a statement, Ben made some small amendments, gave green light and they released it using his name (as it appears old domain has been sold as well). I doubt they would release sth without his approval as they could face legal actions. |
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Description of issue
Moving a discussion that was here regarding community awareness and future analysis of the Bartender application rather than commenting a closed PR.
Edit: this is an ongoing development and new information may become available as this is worked through by the various parties.
cc: @core-code (thanks for the fantastic write-up!)
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Bartender
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