Hi all, On Saturday 13 May 2006 21:28, Erhard Sanio wrote: > Thanks for your response and all other. > > Still I feel that demanding registration is a wrong way > and should be abandoned. Politely asking for some information > is a totally different thing. I would not hesitate to tell > the project people a lot about hardware, software and > general usage of Linux on any of my machines or just > fill them in for statistical purposes.
I would like to bring in some facts into this discussion. We're talking abouth the automatic Onling Update Configuration. The purpose is to get a suitable update source configured for one's system. In order to deliver that service Novell's backend service needs to know a few things: - unique identifier - system architecture - product and product version - time zone Optionally we kindly ask our users to also pass some hardware and other optional information to Novell. This is completely optional. So if anyone does not like to do so, simply deselect these two check boxes and no information besides the above ones will be sent to Novell. Still your update service will be automatically configured. So there is no need to actually skip the step. The IP address is never part of that whole process. Backtracing to single devices and personal data are not part of the process either. This fact can easily be proven by reviewing the logfiles and the source code of the underlying suse_register package. We just discovered a bug inside the system which leads to the wrong impression we were asking for more than this when you click on "Details". This bug will be fixed with one of our next updates. Apologies for that. If you call "suse_register -p -d 2" you can actually see what the server returns for the parameter list request (-p). The XML output of the server shows which parameters actually are marked "mandatory". Regards Michael --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
