Symantec versus Spybot

This is an interesting article I came across while surfing the internet. I don't want you to spend a lot of time reading that so will tell you in a nutshell what is that about.

In April 2005, Symantec's Norton Antivirus started giving warnings to its users about Spybot, an anti-spyware, and recommended them to uninstall it! Since both the involved companies are in the anti-spyware arena, it was clearly seen as a threat to its market by Spybot. By the way, that was a false positive. So Spybot took it very seriously and asked Symantec to remove the warning from their software. Symantec did not want the issue to be dragged too far, so they removed the false positive from their software and things cooled down (atleast publicly).
However, some time back Norton again started claiming that Spybot was corrupting Norton Ghost images. Spybot, angered by this, wrote to Symantec once again but as they say, "Mr. Guido Sanchidrian, product marketing manager of Symantec, appeared offended"!! Symantec said they will reply within a week with evidence but they haven't bothered to reply since then. Spybot even tried to contact other people in Symantec who 'requested' for time till the first week of the new year, but nothing has happened from that front either. Hence, the article, in which Spybot has indicated taking the case further and suing Symantec.

Symantec people, better start looking for other opportunities. Who knows, the manager who hired you might himself get fired before you join! :-D