I think we ought to be able to have a model that suits the Windows model better which doesn't require centralisation. A piece of software running on the desktop

I think we ought to be able to have a model that suits the Windows model better which doesn't require centralisation. A piece of software running on the desktop that provides update capabilities but where each piece of software is picked up from its original site and the location is set to that site. Somewhat like the Ubuntu repository model but without the multiple steps just an installer that installs the common updater tool if needed, registers itself and then this works for all over software too that buys into the model. It should be fairly cheap to run such a tool since the bandwidth is for all the different software tools and completely common features are available to everything. Its just the updater with some standards for implementing software updates without a store.