On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 13:06 -0400, Christopher Blizzard wrote: > There's another interesting aspect of having something on the machine > that allows someone to be counted. It follows the software all the way > from where we put it up, through the mirrors and down to the > installation. It's much more reliable about reporting something in that > sense, rather than collecting stats from mirrors and download sites. > > It also reports the act - "I'm using it" instead of "I downloaded it." > > And last, in some ways it's a lot less nefarious than tracking > downloads. It's a result of a positive act on part of the user, as > opposed to tracking on the backend without any kind of positive assent > from the user. > as long as it is not brought in as an automatic dependency, I agree. -sv _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board-readonly mailing list fedora-advisory-board-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board-readonly
