You can link to all the critic posts I have made all you want, the fact is it’s my own private blog, where I can express my feelings. I have also said that Apple sucks for not having A2DP on their Bluetooth, that Logitech sucks, and so on. I call them like I see them.

Again, if you’re an average Joe, why hide under some pseudonym? Why not show who you really are? Whatever you say to convince people you are not Fon PR is worthless, as long as you keep hiding behind ‘La Vista’. I saw one of the comments on our blog was from an IP located in Barcelona, maybe you could come for a coffee, rather than debating a third party on Om’s blog. Crap, you even got me to reply again, when I said I wouldn’t…

The way you attempt to make me appear is like Spiderman, a secret person nobody really knows identity of. I am your normal Joe, having a normal job, living a normal life.

Mr Mike, just because you reported a security issue about their maps does not mean you are being nice, you only used it as another method of making bad press for Fon.

http://tech.am/2006/12/29/fon-ranked-the-worst-company-by-readers-of-el-mundo-spains-top-online-newspaper/

Did your artistic sarcastic talents make that image? Please let us know….

This blog is big enough for people to have the freedom to comment. I really am interested to see if others agree with me or not.

As for the other stuff, you don’t know the story behind Fon before it was launched, so you should better know your facts before accusing anyone of anything. Or, if you do know it, then you must be pretty close to Fon. I actually think you are Fon’s PR, but since you don’t post with a real name or a link to your site, there’s no way to know, is there?

Quote: “You draw attention to someone else, but when the attention is on you, you do not like it at all.”

Can you tell me when has this happened? I’m not sure what you are referring to. And if you followed my blog, you’d notice that most of my posts have nothing to do with Fon or Whisher (for which I get raps from Ferran all the time :)). Maybe you conveniently forgot, but I reported a security vulnerability to Fon that would allow anyone to reposition all the hotspots on their maps at will – had I been so vile as you say, would it not have been better for my “cause” to do that? Shame that Martin also conveniently forgot to make any mention of that:

http://boards.fon.com/viewtopic.php?t=2375

I even proved that the video of the melting Fonera was most likely faked, again, maybe in my evil master plan I should have molten a few more to draw more attention, right? I’m not going to carry on commenting on this, basically, because I don’t know who I am talking to, so feel free to carry on talking to yourself.

Would you care to comment on what I said, that quite possibly the use of Whisher or similar my well be illegal, or do you just stick your head in the sand?

You say “It’s not hate – it’s receiving cheap shots whenever Fon makes a PR announcement..” yet you fail to point out that you yourself fired so many shots at Fon & Martin through your http://www.tech.am/ blog, a long time before Whisher even appeared or was known of. Please do correct me if I am wrong here. You drew publicity and attention to the slightest error or failing, all documented in your blog and blew it in to a major rant. So when you posts about your flaky project with bad comments (Which ANYONE is entitled to make, it’s called freedom of speech) you cry like a school child who has been called nasty names, yet who was the first person to start calling them.

Did you not take great pleasure in putting up this post about the Fon maps?

http://tech.am/2006/09/25/the-real-fon-statistics-%e2%80%93-lies-manipulation-or-fantasy/

And the death threat…etc..etc..etc.. you are actually very good at provoking trouble. You draw attention to someone else, but when the attention is on you, you do not like it at all.

The same is true of your CEO with his “I founded Fon” story….. again, attention attention.

Any rational person can see what I say is true and that if you wanted your “amazing, cool, the future” product to be taken seriously , and seriously buy not just users, but by ISP’s who’s suport you need, acting in such a manner that you have done does not make you or the company an attractive potential partner.

To close, I tell you, I do not work for Fon and I am not a Fonero. I have no interest if Fon “wins” or fails, but I do have an interest in the story and have my views

It’s not hate – it’s receiving cheap shots whenever Fon makes a PR announcement, such as “This spells the end for Whisher. No one is going to be able to compete with this type of team effort” by ‘La Vista’ (look up), and responding.

We could have posted some reply the minute Om’s article went up, but we honestly are not like that. We’re also not dumb, and will defend ourselves against unfounded comments like those seen in this post.

I would love to put all bitterness aside and work to make free WiFi everywhere a reality, but so far it seems things are not likely to go that way. I’ve removed the firewall filters, so your friend can check us out Monday morning if he wants now, maybe that’s a start :)

Where is all FON-hate coming from? Every time the FON name comes up, you make little cheap shots at them. You know that hate yields bad karma? Sounding bitter is not sexy. I just imagine my buddy isn’t willing to spend his free time at home looking at your website. I hope you and FON succeed because more free and safe WiFi out there is good for everybody, right?

Yes, you’re right – this is a leftover from the time when Martin himself invited one of our sysadmins to Madrid to find out what we were doing, a few months before launching. It was such a nice gesture that we took the precaution of blocking FON’s IPs, and they were left there after launching. I’ll remove the firewall rules so that they can find out what we do (are FON employees banned from having internet at home?).

A buddy of mine works for FON in Spain and when I asked if he had heard about your company he said didn’t know much about it because you guys had blocked their IP from connecting to your website so no one at the FON office could open your page. Hmm. Censorship?

Hey, Om, where’s the update, buddy?

Yes, if it would be censorship, but only blocking possibly illegal sharing of the connection. I guess BT/FON will only permit sharing ADSL via FON. So this would make using Whisher illegal no? Also this super move by BT and FON leaves Whisher with nearly no possibility of teaming up with an ISP to do anything similar. Shame

Ever heard of FON? It’s a WiFi network, built, wonderfully enough, by individual consumers and small businesses in Europe and many other parts of the world. It works on a tiered system of paid and free access. If people opt in to become a &ldquo…

You had better hope Fon do not block your server IP. If they do in their firmware, you have problems. A little bit like

‘Only thing I removed was your link, we’re not going to give them free publicity on our own blog now are we? ;)’

As you said on your company blog