There was no way around it. It was at this moment when I realized just what had happened. There are two ways to look at this. One philosophy reminds us that we're getting software updates free, and almost instantly. Both ideas have validity.
People like to get cool stuff free.
We like being able to go to a Web or ftp site, grab what we need and be up and running the same day. Thousands of people around the world can be running software by nightfall that was released earlier the same day. Anytime a new piece of software appears on a server, it is instantly linked to a multitude of news pages. Problems we encounter can be solved more quickly and diagnosed more reliably thanks to the Internet. Most problems don't happen on one machine alone.