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When I read things like that it pulls me away even further from continuing CS. How blind are you that you do not realise that forcing a software execution is not ransomeware ?

I'll tell you what's wrong here : Docker is a fantastic technology but it simply couldn't find a suitable market tactic.

Now it resolves to this shitty practices. I don't even know how you can begin to think that it would add ANY burden to them NOT to run the update on your computer.

And here is my problem : It's my computer, I decide what is ran on it or not.

Next day we have some idiot getting keys on the docker update system and we simply have built a technologic crash because suddenly nobody can decide wether that update is ran or not.

Keeping control away of the user is the most stupid thing there is.

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> It's my computer, I decide what is ran on it or not.

Absolutely nothing docker has done contradicts this. You want docker desktop, you install docker desktop. You don’t, you don’t.

Docker has no obligation to provide a piece of software (for free!) with exactly the feature set you want. I can’t understand how anyone could think they do.

I installed the Docker Desktop I wanted. Then you reached into my machine, deleted it, and replaced it with something else I didn’t want. I don’t understand how anyone could think they have the right to do that. A desktop application is not a SaaS website. Docker Desktop is the thing it was when I downloaded it, not a piece of real estate on my machine for you to manage remotely as you see fit.

> I installed the Docker Desktop I wanted. Then you reached into my machine, deleted it, and replaced it with something else I didn’t want.

To clarify, you installed a piece of software with this capability. Thus, you did not install a piece of software you wanted.

Furthermore, Docker has the right to write software that functions and updates as they wish. You have the right to not install it. It's really that simple.

A lot of software today is auto-updating, where updates cannot be disabled, if they can even be delayed. It's the developers' choice whether they want their software to function like this, your choice whether you want to install it.

>Absolutely nothing docker has done contradicts this.

Sure it does. It updates the software automatically with seemingly no way of stopping the behavior without first paying a fee.

Regardless of the intent of the individual installing the software on their machine, once installed it absolutely executes on its own; there's no denying this.

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