Oh Man. I can't resist this...
But when Firefox 1.5 does it (check for updates automagically, and in some
cases even install those without asking), it is considered the greatest
thing since sliced bread and the biggest feature worth upgrading for.
Same goes for any google product.
Both Google Talk and Google Desktop search silently upgrade themselves
without even telling you it had been upgraded. I believe an article was
posted on Slashdot pointing that out and (I assume) hoping to get a response
similar to Molle's but the response was quite the opposite.
This is getting completely off topic though, suffice to say I trust
Microsoft (or open source) products phoning home more than I trust Googles
products - one company makes their money off your private information, the
other sells operating systems...
Chris.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leon Zandman [mailto:lzandman@lode.nl]
> Sent: Thursday, 13 April 2006 4:42 PM
> To: dev@tortoisesvn.tigris.org
> Subject: RE: [TSVN] TortoiseSVN calling home?
>
>
> Wow, what a large discussion did Peter McNab's question
> generate :-) If I'm correct Peter is a long time user of
> TSVN. I've seen him post to the lists for some time now. I
> wonder why he didn't notice the auto-update feature before...
>
> > If someone sends a patch for that, I will of course apply it. But I
> > won't implement it myself. An option to deactivate the feature is
> > there, the sourcecode is publicly available for any paranoid people
> > out there to check, the feature is explained in the docs,
> and I have
> > done the same here exhaustingly. For me, that's more than enough.
>
> Just to add a little more oil to the fire: almost every other
> program I run that has a "check for updates"-feature has
> asked me if it was OK to connect to the internet the first
> time a check would be done. So Molle has a valid point,
> Stefan. If Microsoft were to do such things (check without
> asking prior to the check) they would be publicly crucified
> (and they have been in the past).
>
> Greetz,
>
> Leon Zandman
>
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