Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, Fabio Tranchitella wrote: > > * 2007-04-12 11:29, Joey Hess wrote: > > > I wonder if it would be reasonable to make d-i hit one of two urls > > > depending on whether the user chose to enable popcon, and count > the > > > results. > > > > Isn't this a violation of user's privacy? If the user hitted `No', > this > > really means that he doesn't want to call home. > > As long as we don't use that to collect sensitive information, it > would be > ok IMO. (Of course, a preseed question could avoid it completely too) > > Fedora has done it and while the initial discussion came up with such > concerns, they have done so without creating major troubles or loosing > developers, etc. > > I remember this LWN article on this topic: > http://lwn.net/Articles/203694/ > > I can't find a newer article with the final decision taken and the > rationale but that would be interesting for this discussion. There's this, which refers to an article on linux.com: http://lwn.net/Articles/219628/ J. -- +0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+ www: http://www.azazel.net/ pgp: http://www.azazel.net/~azazel/az_key.asc +0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+0+
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