What is FLOSS? On 5/18/10, Fabrizio Giudici <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 5/18/10 08:35 , AndreasEK wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On May 18, 12:06 am, Scott Melton <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> I'm guessing (just guessing) that information is not available >>> because of personal privacy restrictions? >>> >>> http://www.android.com/privacy.html >>> >>> There seems to be fairly restrictive wording with regards to >>> intentions and prior consent. >>> >>> If Google offers(ed) the developer service you request, I would >>> authorize Google to send developers that kind of personal >>> information. I think many people would, but then, I'm a >>> developer. >> >> I haven't read the privacy statement, but Google is collecting and >> sharing the information with Google Analytics without the prior >> consent of the web user. So you could make the analogy that this >> could be possible as well for android apps. And I share Fabrizio's >> view that this would be helpful information to the developer. After >> all, you get anonynous usage statistics, not personal information >> about who is exactly using your app on which phone for how long. > Exactly. BTW, thanks for the pointer to Flurry Analytics, which sounds > as a really cool stuff and it's even free; too bad it's not FLOSS and > my stuff is FLOSS, so I'd like only to use FLOSS things. I presume > I'll introduce a small "ping" to a server of mine that the application > would sent e.g. every in a week, including the model name and > operating system version. Eventually I could implement a small > explicit survey right into the phone. > > - -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people > [email protected] > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAkvyOwQACgkQeDweFqgUGxeukgCffe9uOlhB80wQf9ShJ46lADqQ > EeMAn16sVkrfaWvwPx9VRKoawuVjPSHH > =BHJj > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > >
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