<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Karl Rupp <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rupp@iue.tuwien.ac.at" target="_blank">rupp@iue.tuwien.ac.at</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<span class=""><br>
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There is a difference between a library and an end-user application.<br>
Having "updaters" for end-user applications seems to be the status quo<br>
on Windows and to a lesser extent on Macs, but is resented on Linux.<br>
Having a library do these checks is not okay anywhere.<br>
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I remember a session at the Google Summer of Code where some guy from one of the open source wikis shared his experiences with having embedded a 'counter pixel' in a release. In short, his lesson learned was that any kind of "phoning home" is an absolute no-go unless made *very* clear to the users (plus opt-out). This was pre-Snowden, so many people are now much more sensible with respect to these matters...<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I am all for a configure opt-out, and noting it in every piece of documentation. My impression of the level</div><div>of sophistication of most users is that we will see few opt-outs.</div><div><br></div><div> Matt</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Best regards,<br>
Karli<br>
</blockquote></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.<br>-- Norbert Wiener</div>
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