After downloading and starting bitcoin from the sourceforge download last night, I was not at all pleased today to discover that Bitcoin had decided to add itself to my Gnome startup applications as its default behavior upon being run. Deciding that just because you ran an application once, you want to run it every time you start your computer is behavior I associate with junkware and malware - and the fact that Bitcoin is a p2p application that dials out and also runs a listener makes getting users' informed consent before making changes to default system behavior all the more important.

Please change the option "Start bitcoin on window system startup" to default to off. I understand this is intended as a feature and has no malicious intent, but especially for software that has the goals of privacy and security for users, I think it is best practice to have minimalistic about making changes to the system. Bitcoin is a very exciting project and maintaining a high degree of user confidence in the software and strong reputation for honesty and transparency will add value to the currency.