I agree, there is enough crap bouncing around the net. ANd a lot of vdr users do a lot of reinstalling, changing hardware, etc. So you would get a lot of false data anyway. And I refuse to use any program that is lic to a computer by some HW finger print. ----- Original Message ----- From: "VDR User" <user.vdr@xxxxxxxxx> To: "VDR Mailing List" <vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 6:54 AM Subject: Re: known user base (was: Re: Replay Problems with ExtensionHD) On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 12:10 AM, Christian Tramnitz<chris.ace@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I don't think people would like that. > DRBD has imho a good approach* to track users (and used versions!), but > regardless of the method, this is certainly not on Klaus' priority list. > > > Best regards, > Christian (#68) > > > *On first startup (or after upgrades) a unique ID will generated and the > user will be asked if he wants to send this ID together with the current > version to the maintainer. Optionally (to appear on a list just like vdr's > user list) personal data may be entered, but this is up to the user. > Pressing enter will just send the unique ID and version, aborting the prompt > will not send anything. > > > jori.hamalainen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> >> Perhaps VDR should try to send UDP packet to Klaus's server when it >> starts. >> Not all will not like it, but it is same for me. Windows software do this >> constantly under name for "automatically check for program updates". >> >> BR, Jori, a registered VDR user since 2003. User-tracking has _absolutely no place_ in VDR what-so-ever!! It serves no purpose and if someone wants to be added to a user list somewhere, they can register themselves. If someone really thinks this is a brilliant idea, they can write a plugin to do it but it should have no chance becoming a part of VDR core. No offense but that's the worst idea I've heard by far. _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
