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Originally Posted by BetterRed
And as soon as someone set it to ON it would stay ON, otherwise there'd be no point in setting ON, hence Kovid's out of pocket costs would increase over time.
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He already hosts his downloads on Fosshub (free) and Github (free). I myself develop software and host files for download via my website, on Github, for free ...
Regarding the "On" setting; as you said, 'not everyone has a need to keep it always updated', therefore not everyone will turn it ON, leaving only a certain percentage, which automatically (and according to you, probably dramatically) knocks down those original numbers you calculated.
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Have you considered running from source then you will only need to download what's changed and I think you can get the changes as soon as Kovid posts them to Github. The instructions to do that are at the back of the calibre user manual.
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Well now we'd be right back to talking about conjuring up our own schemes to keep his software updated on our machines. It would take probably a couple hours at least to bake up a system to check Git for changes, if found download and compile, and update the system. All remotely and automatically.