Google Open Sources Updater 174
Jamie noticed the news that Google Update is now Open Source. The article acknowledges the privacy and security concerns of an application that is always running in the background of your machine, and authorized to install new software. And Google made the logically obvious conclusion that releasing the source code would alleviate those concerns.
Re:Finally some justification (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, but as always happens when you open source software, a huge community will immediately spring up from the ground to fork it and start adding features to it. After a few months, that community will decide what it really needs is a ground-up rewrite. After 5 years and several hundred alpha releases, you'll be able to download the first beta of the rewritten app, which by this point will have morphed into an entire Linux distribution which, unfortunately, lacks decent software update capabilities.
Re:concerns alleviated... (Score:5, Funny)
Well I feel much safer now knowing that the updater is open source. I have for one have no worries about the code actually being updated... that of course is completely kosher.
Don't worry, I checked. Has the little (u) and everything for Passover. Dunno how it'll be after the holiday's over, though.
Re:concerns alleviated... (Score:1, Funny)
Isn't that protected by an "#if EVIL" though? I wonder what is passed to gcc via -D...