On 11/20/2010 03:58 AM, Harold Fuchs wrote:
"Mateusz Zasuwik" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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Hello
Early this year FlashCounter published a statistic showed popularity
OOo in
selected countries. We found out that it had 22% in Poland and Czech
Republic and 21% in Germany.
http://www.webmasterpro.de/portal/news/2010/02/05/international-openoffice-market-shares.html
http://ooblog.pl/2010/02/06/polska-swiatowym-liderem-we-wdrozeniu-openoffice/(polish)
The study relies on extricating fonts installed on the system and
identify
the installed Office suites. For OOo it's OpenSymbol and for MSO it's
Calibri. I think LibreOffice should have own unique font (not RedHat
Liberation Fonts). It can be ugly and useless but should "be" to next
compare in future.
That's a very clever idea but how was it implemented? How do you (or
FlashCounter) decide what fonts are installed on my system? What
approval did I give for that to be done? If I approved it, why didn't
I instead simply say what office suite(s) I had installed? What
software looked at my fonts? Is it still installed on my system? Is it
still sending the information? What other information is it sending?
To whom is the data being sent? To whom are they sending the data?
What other uses are being made of the data? Did I approve those uses?
When? How?
Harold,
This font would be part of the Loffice installer package, just like any
other feature that would possibly raise security concerns. Perhaps an
install time option to install this and other open fonts?
Also as to how the scanner could find this information, as a amateur web
programmer I know it is an intrinsic part of your web browser to be able
to know what fonts are installed. Any javascript or website can find
this with a simple command. This isn't because of any thing in the
office suite.
-Sonic4Spuds
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