What is FLOSS?

On 5/18/10, Fabrizio Giudici <[email protected]> wrote:
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> 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.
>
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