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Originally Posted by BetterRed
Very few people need to download every new version, and there is a new version every couple of weeks. Calibre has ~3,000,000 active users, with ~25 releases per annum, at ~70MB each that is 5.25 billion Megabytes.
And who would pay for the network bandwidth at the server end? Kovid Goyal.
I'll leave you to calculate the cost he would have to bear.
BR
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As a direct comparison, Plex media server updates every few weeks and they have that automated.
The Plex media player client also auto updates.
Dunno exactly how many active users but a big number.
And it's freeware, for most users, yet they are able to find auto updates somehow.
A small minority pay for plex pass but most do not. I do only because a cheap lifetime offer came around. All the features I like are in the free version