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feldon34:
What's right, is to make it as easy as possible for customers to buy, use, and update the product, and do all of that without doing anything unethical. We just have a disagreement about what's ethical.
Just to be clear, I completely agree with you about "what's right". And I don't think that you and I have any huge disagreement about what's ethical.
In the past, I have strongly expressed my opinion that there should be a (user-permitted) automatic check for updates. Although I still hold that opinion, implementation has been firmly rejected. Therefore, I don't continue to push my opinion.
I outlined another approach, which seems to be generally echoed by several other folks ("Check for Update" button), and which might be acceptable. I'm rather confident that you agree that it is ethical. As far as I see, Jim has not yet expressed a decision or opinion about that method.