I am a mainframe systems programmer for over 25 years, working mostly with IBM and various third party software vendors.
Do you know what would happen in the mainframe world if some vendor said “Well, you have to plug this IP address or this URL into the software so it can do automatic updates whenever.”
As a systems person, I know what I’d say. And I know what the management team responsible for RAS would say, the user community would probably chime in also, and tell the vendor to take a flying leap, cancel all licenses, and make darn sure that all traces of the product was scrubbed from the host before the weekend!
And I work with people on the server side taking care of SAP and Oracle, and they would tell them the same thing.
We will do it on our time WHEN WE ARE READY and WHEN WE ARE AWARE OF ALL THE POSSIBLE RAMIFICATIONS!
PERIOD!
Don’t lump me in with them. I bloody well chose it and manually updated it.