Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 29th Aug 2007 21:57 UTC, submitted by Kroc
The AutoPatcher project has been asked by Microsoft to stop operations. "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."
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Member since:2006-12-28
The Autopatcher folks getting a nice job or not is hardly the issue being discussed here. MS shutting down a useful community project that was helping allot of people, to witch they have no competing solution or valid replacement, is.
I'm sure people can come up with plenty of reasons for why they did it, and some of them might even sound justified. It still does nothing to ease the burden on system builders and support engineers though.
You can try to polish it, dress it up and cover it with perfume, but at the end of the day, a turd is still a turd.
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2007-02-22
It looks like Microsoft asked politely, and they took it down politely.
And who knows? The Autopatcher folks, now that they've shown they can work with the Windows systems on a deep level, just might find a nice employment contract hitting their desks soon. Especially with his closing line -- "the end of AutoPatcher as we know it." Not "the end of AutoPatcher."
See the example of Sysinternals for what I mean.