Edited by author 09-09-2002 03:35 AM
Something I would be really interested in knowing is what people think of the idea of being forced to use autoUpdate if they use the free license?

This is an idea put forward by the BitKeeper people as one of the conditions of free use of BitKeeper, the idea being that as a free user you contribute by always running the latest version of the code. This in turn means that the latest version should be well tested.

Now, in principle, I am against doing auto updates without the users consent and, at the moment, liveTopics comes with auto update disabled. However Marc's activeRenderer comes configured the other way around and I assume he doesn't have people complaining about it (Marc?)

So I am guessing that the idea of autoUpdate coming enabled doesn't necessarily bother too many people (sample size).

However this moves it on a little by saying that you won't have a checkbox, you won't be able to turn auto-update off.

What do people think about that?

[Note: I would only do this anyway if it was possible to only autoUpdate to *release* versions. I wouldn't want to try and force people to always be on the latest beta!]