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 AutoPatcher project is over?
post Aug 31 2007, 12:17 PM
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Today we received an e-mail from Microsoft, requesting the immediate take-down of the download page, which of course means that AutoPatcher is probably history. As much as we disagree, we can do very little, and although the download page is merely a collection of mirrors, we took the download page down.

We would like to thank you for your support. For the past 4 years, it has been a blast. Unfortunately, it seems like it's the end of AutoPatcher as we know it.

Comments are welcome...

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post Aug 31 2007, 01:05 PM
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Hmmm,
I cannot see what advantage might Microsoft get from this move, the most it can get is to increase the number of people "hating" it's policies and increasing traffic on their servers.

I guess that most 56k users (which are still much more than MS appears to estimate) and all those people that have PC's not connected to the Internet (besides some that are connected) won't like this.

However, I also cannot see why cannot Autopatcher be transformed (as it should have been in the beginning, IMHO) in an app capable of downloading all updates publicly available from Microsoft's servers to a local "master" PC, from which a techician, support personnel or end-user can, through network or CD/DVD deploy the updates to other computers. unsure.gif

A thing that deserves a comment is undoubtedly the self-appointed definition of the (anonymized) author of the "take down notice":
http://www.autopatcher.com/takedown-notice
as Internet Investigator.
(please note the capital "I" in "Investigator")


The definition of investigator:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/investigator
seems not to comprehend:
"someone that after more than 4 (four) years of public availability of something, finds it"

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A much better definition would be Internet naive:
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/naive

(or to give more relevance to his/her professionality, Internet Naive)

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post Aug 31 2007, 01:17 PM
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imo, the main reason that M$ fights all those update packs is, that they enables users to get the updates without the stupid M$ verification. What's realy a genuine advantage!

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post Aug 31 2007, 02:19 PM
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QUOTE (MedEvil @ Aug 31 2007, 01:17 PM) *
imo, the main reason that M$ fights all those update packs is, that they enables users to get the updates without the stupid M$ verification. What's realy a genuine advantage!

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This sure sounds like a good "genuine advantage".. dry.gif

Another good reason to start supporting reactOS in a nearby future. cheers.gif


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post Aug 31 2007, 06:13 PM
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Someone was saying that using Firefox you can skip the genuine advantage per MS letting it happen.


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post Aug 31 2007, 07:43 PM
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That would be new to me.
As far as i know one can't even access M$ update with FF when GA is up and running.

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