Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 29th Aug 2007 21:57 UTC, submitted by Kroc
Microsoft 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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by flanque on Thu 30th Aug 2007 02:59 UTC in reply to "RE"
flanque
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2005-12-15

Why not start openAutopatcher?

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by CVDpr on Thu 30th Aug 2007 04:25 in reply to "RE"
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2005-10-17

Good One!

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by Kroc on Thu 30th Aug 2007 07:28 in reply to "RE"
Kroc Member since:
2005-11-10

Because the problem would be the same. Microsoft do not want people redistributing patches not marked as redistributable. Open Source has nothing to do with it :|

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by flanque on Thu 30th Aug 2007 07:58 in reply to "RE"
flanque Member since:
2005-12-15

Sure, but what if the software downloaded them off the Microsoft website and built the installer afterwards. Only the software is being downloaded, no patches redistributed.

Besides, if it's open, the source is out there and it will live regardless of whom Microsoft email.

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