On Thursday 12 August 2010 02:20:34 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > Ger Remmers wrote: > > To be brutally honest, I don't like any form of "ET, phone home" things > > in a program. > > I agree, and I also don't like mandatory registration. > > > Why not? > > Because it is nobodies business [how / if / what for] I or anybody else > > uses the compiler. It has been put out there as open source, no strings > > attached. > > Very true, but it /is/ in your interest to make sure that the developers > are aware, in some structured way, what facilities you're using. >
I understand what you are saying, but no, it's none of Florians business (sorry Florian) to know what I'm using, or how I''m using it. > If you say what widget set etc. you're using in the ML then it might be > overlooked, there's definitely no easy way to mine info like that. If > you put it on a bug report then it's possible to mine info from people > who've reported problems but not from those who haven't. And so on. I fully understand the dilemma, but to me it's my interests first and screw the rest. If I have something to [whine / bitch / complain] about I will do so in here -- Regards Ger -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
