On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 10:11 -0600, Mike McGrath wrote:
On 1/31/07, Ralf Corsepius rc040203@freenet.de 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