On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 10:11 -0600, Mike McGrath wrote: > On 1/31/07, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 09:26 -0600, Mike McGrath wrote: > > > Hey guys, smolt is in a state now where it can be released and tested > > > by the general public. Currently smolt-firstboot has firstboot > > > integration with opt in/out. My question for the dev's is: > > > > > > Do we as a community want to include this by default in Fedora 7? > > OK, now that you have asked, you'll be prepared to facing a very clear > > answer: NO, NEVER. > > > > It must be strictly optional and even then, it should require explicit > > interactive user activation. > > > > I am not willing to accept any unsupervised, non-opt-in data > > transmission from any package in Fedora and will prepare a proposal to > > change the Fedora Package Guidelines accordingly. > > > > Ralf > > > > Lucky for me then, I based the firstboot integration off of the EULA. > Its very easy to opt out of. It must be opt-in. 1. May-be you should consider to talk to RH legal. In many parts of this world opt-out is ILLEGAL. 2. It should be is a matter of fairness to make it opt-in. 3. In many parts of this world SPY-WARE like yours is a very hot political topic. You are at risk at exposing Fedora to be subjects to such flames. Even Microsoft has learned their lessons and made "registration opt-in", now you are committing the same FAULT. Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
