thoughts on LWN "how many Fedora users are there"

[Ric Moore]

On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 16:52 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Friday 13 October 2006 16:29, Les Mikesell wrote:
> > > What exactly is your concern from the project collected anonymous stats
> > > from mirrors logs on the server side? I cant see any reason why you
> > > would want to avoid that. If you do, use a local mirror.
> >
> > I don't personally have a problem with this so I can't elaborate, but
> > I've seen others suggest a privacy concern that should probably be
> > respected.  
> 
> Surely this is easy enough to resolve?  If Fedora publish the script that is 
> used to harvest the IP and do whatever is required, surely it would be simple 
> enough for anyone who needs to, to check that their privacy is preserved?  
> After all, this is one of the main arguments in favour of Open Source 
> Software.

Do a google on "adclick" to see just what users concerns might be, abuse
happens. You're completely correct that an OpenSource model be used. 
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