> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve 
> Edwards Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 2:45 PM

> Would you object to a 'curl' request in the script that starts Asterisk 
> that sends your MAC address and Asterisk version number to Asterisk.org? 
> Not tracking your IP address or any other identifying information, just 
> the MAC and cheese.

On Wed, 17 Nov 2010, Danny Nicholas wrote:

> Wouldn't apply to you, Steve, but sooner or later somebody will probably
> imbed an innocuous "phone-home" into one of the Asterisk modules and it will
> take a C person like yourself to point out the "Microsoft-ness" of this
> snippet.

Isn't it odd that we (I?) assume Windows packages do it, but would find it 
offensive if an OSS did it without warning.

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