If it's off by default we may as well not bother to include it, since it will be utterly useless in counting measures. We'd just as well have a web poll to track market share.
We can avoid accusations of privacy violations through the very transparency under which we develop everything: The source code for the client and the server. The question that remains to answer is: Are the statistics sufficiently valuable as to be useful? What do we compare them to to determine market share? If its just so we can have a counter on the home page, probably not worth it. -Rob On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 11:30 +1200, John Williams wrote: > On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 11:21 -0400, Robert Love wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 14:37 +1200, John Williams wrote: > > > > > Essentially we propose modifying the GNOME About box to include a toggle > > > that indicate the user's permission to activate a program that would > > > periodically contact a central GNOME server. Information that would be > > > transmitted and recorded has not been decided yet, but the prime > > > requirement is to record the number of current GNOME users (not > > > installations) on a (say) monthly basis. > > > > I can see the slashdot article now.. > > > Really? What does it say? > > "GNOME gets off its arse and tries to measure market share in the > buildup to 10x10" > > or > > "GNOME acts like Evil Empire M$ by embedding secret software the spy on > users" > > ? > > It is exactly the latter that we want to avoid, by making this toggle > button off by default (as explained on the wiki page). > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list > _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
