On Friday 15 March 2002 10:47 pm, jukola wrote: [snipped]
> A printer is *not* a software, nor is a CPU. Whilst that is undoubtedly true, in Windows many printers connect to the internet because their drivers are set up to use rpcss.exe in the Windows OS. My Epson printer would not print unless it was connected to the internet... I am not saying this is true of all printers, but using it as an example; I'm sure there's a lot of spyware in printer drivers but because it operates at the OS level it isn't immediately obvious. This doesn't happen in Linux because the drivers are in the kernel and don't require an internet connection to function. By the same token, software running on a PC (in the shape of drivers) can affect other programs, so it is a legitimate question to ask. There is nothing underhand going on here: you are free to use Mozilla without the Quality Feedback Agent (Talkback) if you prefer. If you do opt-in for testing, the guys at Mozilla say they will take info about your system should you have a crash. You are agreeing to give them such information as they require when you agree to use a Talkback build. That's how I understood it when I downloaded Mozilla several builds ago, and the wording on their notice doesn't seem to have changed since then. -- Graham
