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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Direction of KDE default?
From:       "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () olympusproject ! org>
Date:       2002-07-28 3:39:39
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On Saturday 27 July 2002 09:29, Uno Engborg wrote:
> Yes,  you may call it spyware. But those spied upon, would be so on a
> strictly voluntary basis.
> The submitted information would be annonymized to prevent that it could
> be used be used
> for marketing purposes.  At least not ad individual level.

annonymizing it would make it useless as a configuration back up, since many 
config settings hold personal info.

> But naturally there would be a problem convinceing our users that the
> information wouldn't
> be missused.  After all, only a very minor part of our potential users
> do read source code,
> and convince themselves that they really submitt their info annonymously.

and even fewer know who you or  i are ;-)

> However I think that we need to give the users somthing back, to get
> them to send us
> the information we need to make informed design decisions.

the same thing any of us gets: satisfaction from helping out.

if we make it clear that by submitting your config settings (we can show them 
what is being sent before sending it, as well) that it will help us shipped 
with better defaults, i'm certain we'll get lots of participants if the 
software is easy enough to use.

- -- 
Aaron J. Seigo
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"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler"
    - Albert Einstein
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